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tara gums

tara gums is the plural of tara gum.

Meaning of tara gum

Noun

tara gum (usually uncountable, plural tara gums)

  1. (usually) A white or beige nearly odorless powder used as a thickening agent and stabilizer for food, produced by separating and grinding the endosperm of Tara spinosa seeds.
    • Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.2024 October 3, Sandee LaMotte, “‘I’ve never experienced pain like that’: Consumers pay the price for untested food ingredients”, in CNN
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Questions about tara gums

What is tara gums the plural of?
Tara gums is the plural of tara gum.

Words near tara gums in the dictionary

  1. tar-water
  2. tara
  3. Tara fern
  4. Tara ferns
  5. tara gum
  6. tara gums
  7. Tara Hills
  8. Taraba
  9. tarabish
  10. tarabooka
  11. tarabookas

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