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An ingredient added to various food products, such as ice cream, snack bars, sour cream, yogurt, or salad dressing as a thickening, stabilizing and emulsifying agent. Produced from the fermentation of a carbohydrate, such as corn, xanthan gum is purified, processed, and most often ground into a powder form for use as a food additive. It has various attributes that assist with numerous food products, such as making items easily soluble, creating creamy textures, providing body and stability to food substances, and binding water.