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Locust Bean Gum: Uses, Benefits, and Essential Facts
Calcium Chloride Innovative Uses and Surprising Benefits You Didn’t Know About
Guar Gum 101: Uses, Benefits, and More
What is Sodium Citrate?
Understanding Pectin: Types, Uses, and Health Benefits
What Is Carrageenan and Its Uses in 2025?
What is Propylene Glycol Alginate?
Hydrocolloid News Roundup — August 2025
How to Use Xanthan Gum: Tips for Gluten-Free and Everyday Cooking
About CapeCrystal
We are a specialty premium food ingredient supplier for cooks, chefs, and food producers throughout the USA and Canada. We offer such ingredients as agar agar, carrageenans, sodium alginate, tara, locust bean and many other gums, fruit powders and related items. We offer free cookbooks with many delicious and tasty recipes using our ingredients that you can download from our website.
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Download FREE Cook Books
Cape Crystal Brands has created a number of interesting cookbooks you will not find anywhere else to provide some creative and delicious recipes from main meals to delectable deserts. The recipes incorporate Cape Crystal Brands specialty ingredients for added gastronomical creativity. Just click on the links below to download. Let us know your favorite creation. Between the 5 available cookbooks there are 200 delicious recipes. You are bound to find a family favorite here.
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