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Allene Jeanes

American chemist

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discovery of xanthan gum

  • In xanthan gum: Historical development

    …1960s by American carbohydrate chemist Allene R. Jeanes and her research team at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Jeanes and her colleagues discovered the substance while searching for a microbial gum that could be used in food and industrial products but that—unlike other plant gums at the time—could be…

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