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Unlocking Culinary Magic: How Sodium Alginate Transforms Your Kitchen Creations
Unlocking Culinary Magic: How Sodium Alginate Transforms Your Kitchen Creations
  • sodium alginate
February 24, 2025

Unlocking Culinary Magic: How Sodium Alginate Transforms Your Kitchen Creations

When alginic acid binds with sodium and calcium ions, the resulting salts are known as alginates....
Do We Really Need Protein Powder
Do We Really Need Protein Powder
  • Protein Powder
February 24, 2025

Do We Really Need Protein Powder

About 97% to 98% of healthy people get enough protein from their daily food. For...
Potassium Bicarbonate: A Baking, Health, and Culinary Essential
Potassium Bicarbonate: A Baking, Health, and Culinary Essential
  • Culinary and Nutritional Uses
February 24, 2025

Potassium Bicarbonate: A Baking, Health, and Culinary Essential

What if one ingredient could leaven baked goods, support heart health, and balance pH levels?...
What Are GABA-Enriched Consumables?
GABA from oolong tea
  • GABA
February 23, 2025

What Are GABA-Enriched Consumables?

A surprising 60-75% of all synapses in the mammalian brain are GABAergic, making GABA the...
Watercress: The Ultimate Superfood
Watercress
  • watercress
February 22, 2025

Watercress: The Ultimate Superfood

Did you know watercress is the top nutrient-dense food, with a perfect score of 100 from...
Top Small Businesses Offering Hydrocoloid Specialty Food Ingredients
hydrocolloids
February 22, 2025

Top Small Businesses Offering Hydrocoloid Specialty Food Ingredients

Hydrocolloid ingredients are key in the food world for changing textures and flavors. Small businesses...
The Top 6 Small-Sized Businesses Revolutionizing Food Texture and Flavor
hydrocolloids
  • Are Hydrocolloids Pet Safe
February 20, 2025

The Top 6 Small-Sized Businesses Revolutionizing Food Texture and Flavor

In the world of culinary arts, achieving the perfect texture and flavor is paramount. Small-sized...
Aspartame: Is It Safe or Harmful?
Aspartame: Is It Safe or Harmful?
  • Aspartame Concerns
February 20, 2025

Aspartame: Is It Safe or Harmful?

In the United States, 41% of adults eat foods and drinks with aspartame. This artificial sweetener...
Study: Chlorine In Water Can Lead to Increased Cancer Risk
Study: Chlorine In Water Can Lead to Increased Cancer Risk
  • chlorine
February 19, 2025

Study: Chlorine In Water Can Lead to Increased Cancer Risk

Nearly 300 million people in the US have high levels of trihalomethane (THM) byproducts in...

About CapeCrystal

making spheres

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.

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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