carrageenan

binding food additive made from seaweed
class polysaccharide Q421991
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carrageenan

Summary

carrageenan is a polysaccharide[1]. carrageenan draws 838 Wikipedia views per month (polysaccharide category, ranking #2 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • carrageenan's instance of is recorded as polysaccharide[3].
  • carrageenan's instance of is recorded as mixture[4].
  • carrageenan's instance of is recorded as food ingredient[5].
  • carrageenan's made from material is recorded as Rhodophyta[6].
  • carrageenan's CAS Registry Number is recorded as 9000-07-1[7].
  • carrageenan's EC number is recorded as 232-524-2[8].
  • carrageenan's subclass of is recorded as gel[9].
  • carrageenan's subclass of is recorded as polymer network[10].
  • carrageenan's has use is recorded as food thickener[11].
  • carrageenan's has use is recorded as gelling agent[12].
  • carrageenan's has use is recorded as Q17232536[13].
  • carrageenan's Commons category is recorded as Carrageenan[14].
  • carrageenan's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D002351[15].
  • carrageenan's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 52451[16].
  • carrageenan's has part is recorded as oxygen[17].
  • carrageenan's has part is recorded as carbon[18].
  • carrageenan's has part is recorded as hydrogen[19].
  • carrageenan's has part is recorded as water[20].
  • carrageenan's E number is recorded as E407[21].
  • carrageenan's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01j81y[22].
  • carrageenan's UNII is recorded as 5C69YCD2YJ[23].
  • carrageenan's KEGG ID is recorded as C08818[24].
  • carrageenan's MeSH tree code is recorded as D09.698.152[25].
  • carrageenan's ChEBI ID is recorded as 3435[26].
  • carrageenan's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[27].

Why It Matters

carrageenan draws 838 Wikipedia views per month (polysaccharide category, ranking #2 of 14).[2] carrageenan has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] carrageenan is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . ChemIDplus. chem.nlm.nih.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . ECHA Substance Infocard database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Food Chemistry. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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