Health impact of carrageenan and its application in food industry: a review

Abstract Carrageenan is used widely in food products especially for gelling, thickening, emulsifying agents, and to stabilize the properties which extracted from red purple seaweeds that contain mixture of polysaccharides. Based on sulfate content, carrageenan divided as kappa-carrageenan, iota-carrageenan, lambda carrageenan. Even though it industry, there controversy about health effects using such may cause inflammation, glucose intolerance, insulin resistance, gastrointestinal ulcerations, could damage digestive system. According this condition suggested limit usage industry. The objective paper discuss impact application