Clumping of gaur gum in salted Cashews

Question

Hello, I was developing Salted Cashews using the ingredients water, gaur gum, salt.
But after pan coating the guar gum and salt making clumps and they are sticking on the nuts. I think this clumps are pseudo plastic.Plz suggest how to resolve it. Should I replace gaur gum with other ingredient?
Note- here using adhesive agent cause we are sprinkling the salt.
We tried directly pouring of salt solution but the appearance of final product was not good.
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Answer 1

You are using the guar gum solution as a glue to stick salt particles on, aren't you?

Answer 2

Yes . I'm adding it to water having temperature 80c.

Answer 3

For this application arabic gum might work better.
Or have a mixture of guar gum and xanthan gum.
There is a problem with shear thinning when it comes to guar gum. :slight_smile:

Clumping of gaur gum in salted Cashews

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