It is very evident that gums have very vast application in pharmaceutical and food industries. As a result of this, there is increasing in demands for gums globally, which causes the increase in prices of the existing gums in the local and international market. For the price to be stable and less expensive there is need to look for alternative or discoveries of more suitable natural gums which will be of the same quality or even surpass the existing ones. The book presents the Physicochemical and Rheological properties of four gum exudates of Nigerian origin which have never been exploited...

Exudates are complex mixtures of organic compounds oozed by plants, often, but not always as a result of injury. These products are rich in carbon and hydrogen atoms and are also commonly called "sap" although the word "sap" is used to describe any fluid that travels inside plants. Only little research is currently underway on gums from African plants, yet Africa imports a lot of gums for pharmaceutical and food industries. This books presents exudate gum from Daniella oliverri which has been analyzed for their physiochemical properties, chemical constituents (using GC-MS). Their application...