Grade guide
Which gum acacia grade do you need?
Every application we supply into, what the gum actually does in each one, and which species fits. Read it, or let the selector do it for you.
Grade guide
Every application we supply into, what the gum actually does in each one, and which species fits. Read it, or let the selector do it for you.
Gum acacia comes from two species and they are not interchangeable.
Acacia senegal carries a higher arabinogalactan-protein fraction. That protein is what anchors an oil droplet, so senegal is the species for holding oil in water in a product that stays liquid: beverage flavor emulsions, cloud systems, liquid color, cannabinoid nano-emulsion premix.
Acacia seyal carries a higher polysaccharide fraction and runs lower in viscosity at high solids. That makes it the species for carrying, coating, binding and fiber: spray-dried flavor and color, encapsulation, confectionery panning, tablet binding, fiber fortification, mouthfeel.
If you are making an emulsion, one question settles the species: does the emulsion stay liquid, or does it get dried into a powder? That distinction does more work than any other on this page, and it is the one most often missed.
Form is a much smaller question than species, and it is not a constraint. Both forms work in every application. Spray-dried is the default. Agglomerated wets out without lumping, so it is the better choice where a person reconstitutes the powder by hand: powdered beverages, stick packs, and formats of that kind.
Certification is a third, independent axis. Both species are stocked conventional and certified organic, in both forms.
These are the parameters that decide whether a gum acacia will work in your formula. They apply to any supplier, not just this one. If you are qualifying a new source, this is the list to run it against.
Species is the first decision and the easiest one to get wrong, because both species are sold as "gum arabic" and both look like a cream-coloured powder. Ask for optical rotation on the certificate of analysis. Acacia seyal is dextrorotatory, Acacia senegal is levorotatory, and the sign of the rotation identifies the species on its own. A blend cannot fake it.
This is the distinction that decides the species on any emulsion, and it is the one most specifications get wrong. Flavor emulsion, vitamin emulsion, color emulsion, cannabinoid emulsion: the question is the same one.
If the emulsion stays liquid, use senegal. The gum has to hold every oil droplet in suspension for the shelf life of the product, in a bottle, on a shelf, through temperature swings. That is interfacial work, it runs on the arabinogalactan-protein fraction, and senegal carries more of it. A beverage emulsion concentrate, a liquid color, a nano-emulsion premix sold on to brands: all liquid, all senegal.
If you spray-dry that same emulsion into a powder, seyal works well. Once the water is gone, the droplet is locked into a glassy matrix, and the gum stops holding an interface open and starts being wall material. seyal does that job well and usually costs less. Spray-dried flavor, encapsulated oil-soluble vitamins, encapsulated essential oils, oil powders: all dried, and seyal belongs there.
The trap is a product that is an emulsion on the way in and a powder on the way out. The word "emulsion" in the specification pulls people toward senegal, when what governs is the state the finished product ships in. If the powder is the product, you are buying an encapsulation system rather than an emulsion stabilizer. The mechanism, worked examples, and the two cases where senegal still earns its place on a dried product are in why the species depends on whether you dry it.
Both forms work in every application on this page. This is worth being plain about, because form is often written into a specification as though it were a constraint. It is not. Spray-dried and agglomerated are the same gum, and neither one will fail in an application the other suits.
Spray-dried is the standard fine powder and the sensible default. Agglomerated has been through a second step that builds the particles into porous clusters, so it wets out cleanly instead of forming fish-eyes. That is better in one situation: when a person reconstitutes the powder into liquid by hand. Powdered beverages, stick packs, shaker bottles, a scoop into a glass. It also flows and compresses better on a tablet press. Those applications are marked in the tables below.
seyal runs darker than senegal. In a cola or a chocolate coating that is invisible. In a white panned shell, a pastel gummy, or a clear beverage it is not. The applications below are marked for color sensitivity so you know when this is a real constraint and when it is not. Lighter grades exist and are produced by additional treatment, which is a cost and a spec question rather than a purity question.
Certified organic is available in both species and both forms, through Oregon Tilth to the USDA National Organic Program in the United States and Canada, and Ecocert in the EU. Kosher and Halal certification are in place. Ask for the certificates up front rather than after the first order, and check that the certificate names the specific grade you are buying.
Ours is Germany. The raw gum is collected across the acacia belt, but it is cleaned, processed and spray-dried in Germany, and that is what sets country of origin on the certificate and the customs entry. This matters more than it sounds like it should: buyers running supplier qualification need one stable country of origin on file, and a document that names a different collection country every shipment creates work for your quality team.
A specification sheet describes the grade. A certificate of analysis describes the lot in your warehouse. You want both, and you want the COA to arrive with the material rather than three weeks later. For regulated or audited work, check that the supplier can produce the organic certificate, allergen and GMO statements, kosher and halal certificates, and a heavy metals result against the framework you are held to.
Stock position is a specification in every way that matters to a production schedule. Ask where the material sits today, not where it can be sourced from. We hold inventory in United States warehouses and most grades ship in one to two business days.
84 finished and semi-finished formats, and what gum acacia is doing in each. Species is the decision that matters. Both forms work everywhere, so the agglomerated column marks only the formats where it is the better choice, which is where somebody reconstitutes the powder by hand. Where an application is often bought as a finished system rather than as raw gum, or where the format frequently skips gum acacia altogether, that is flagged in the row. We would rather you know that up front.
Beverages Confectionery Dietary supplements & nutraceuticals Functional & specialty foods Flavors, colors & B2B ingredient systems Cannabis & hemp products Industrial & other
Beverage work splits cleanly. If a flavor oil has to stay dispersed, that is emulsification and it wants senegal. If the job is body, fiber, or keeping a powder dissolving cleanly, that is seyal.
| Application | What the gum does | Species | Agglomerated | Color sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carbonated soda with citrus or fruit oil | Keeps the citrus oil cloud stable through shelf life. Worth checking: Some bottlers source pre-formulated cloud emulsion compounds from their flavor house. If your spec doesn't call out gum acacia as a line item, you may be buying compound and the gum acacia is at your supplier's tier. | senegal | High | |
| Beverage flavor emulsion or clouding system (any flavor oil) | Emulsifies and holds the flavor oil dispersed so it does not ring, cloud out, or separate through shelf life. | senegal | High | |
| Sports drink or electrolyte beverage with citrus oil | Keeps the citrus oil stable in a mineral-loaded drink. | senegal | High | |
| Botanical aperitif, NA spirit, or social tonic (alcohol-free) | Adds the body and round mouthfeel that alcohol normally gives, well below haze threshold. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Prebiotic or functional soda (with fiber claim on label) | Delivers the soluble fiber claim and adds light body to the finished drink. | seyal | Moderate | |
| RTD coffee or cold brew concentrate | Adds body, soluble fiber, and helps emulsify any oil phase in the matrix. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Powdered drink mix or single-serve stick pack | Carries the flavor, helps the powder rehydrate cleanly, and contributes soluble fiber. | seyal | Preferred | High |
| Coffee creamer, ready to drink | Stabilizes the oil emulsion that gives the creamer its texture, and has to hold it for the shelf life of the carton. | senegal | High | |
| Coffee creamer, powdered | Carries the fat through spray drying and helps the powder disperse cleanly into hot coffee. | seyal | Preferred | High |
| Fountain syrup, foodservice mixer base, FCB or slushie syrup, coffee shop syrup | Keeps the emulsion stable through high Brix and the alcohol in foodservice syrups. | senegal | Moderate | |
| Cocktail mixer or RTD cocktail (alcoholic up to ~20%) | Stabilizes the oil emulsion in an alcohol-containing beverage. Worth checking: Some mass-market cocktail mixer brands use xanthan and pectin systems instead. Where gum acacia does apply, the brand is sometimes under central procurement at a major parent company. | senegal | Moderate | |
| Powdered protein shake (whey, casein, plant protein) | Disperses the dry mix and adds soluble fiber, without much viscosity change. | seyal | Preferred | Moderate |
| Plant-based RTD protein shake | Adds mouthfeel and soluble fiber in plant-protein RTDs. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Protein or fiber fortified boba and bubble tea | Adds soluble fiber and mouthfeel in functional boba formats. | seyal | Preferred | Moderate |
| Sparkling water or hard seltzer with citrus oil | Stabilizes any citrus oil if the brand is using a clean-label citrus declaration. Worth checking: Most hard seltzer products skip gum acacia entirely. Only applicable if the brand uses citrus oil with a clean-label declaration. | senegal | High | |
| Botanical, cream, or coffee liqueur (emulsion) | Stabilizes the oil emulsion in an alcohol matrix. | senegal | High | |
| Powdered dietary fiber stick pack | Is the soluble fiber active in the stick pack and helps dispersion. | seyal | Preferred | Moderate |
| Powdered functional energy or pre-workout drink mix | Carries the flavor, helps dispersion, and contributes soluble fiber to the label. Worth checking: Premium electrolyte and pre-workout brands often skip fiber entirely. Gum acacia fits the version of this format that carries a fiber or prebiotic claim. | seyal | Preferred | High |
Panning, coating and binding run on seyal. The exception is hard candy and anything where a flavor oil has to stay put, which runs senegal. Color sensitivity is high across most of this category because the finished piece is often white or pastel.
| Application | What the gum does | Species | Agglomerated | Color sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hard candy, pastille, or throat lozenge | Binds the candy matrix and slows sugar crystallization at high inclusion levels. | senegal | High | |
| Gummy candy (gelatin-based or pectin-based) | Adds clarity, improves texture, and resists bloom in the gummy matrix. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Vegan or pectin-based gummy (no gelatin) | Sets the texture quickly, supports the fiber claim, and works without gelatin. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Marshmallow, nougat, or aerated confection | Stabilizes the aerated foam. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Compressed lozenge or tablet candy | Binds the compressed candy in direct compression. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Panned chocolate (M&M-style sugar shell) | Builds the sugar shell coat by coat in the panning syrup. | seyal | High | |
| Sugar-coated or chocolate-coated nut | Builds the coating coat by coat in the panning syrup. | seyal | High | |
| Dragée, sugar-coated almond, or Jordan almond | Builds the traditional sugar shell coat by coat in the panning syrup. | seyal | High | |
| Sugar-coated chewing gum (dragée gum) | Builds the sugar shell coat by coat on the gum core. | seyal | High | |
| Confectionery sprinkles (chocolate jimmies, nonpareils) | Binds and shapes the decoration in the coating syrup. | seyal | High | |
| Frozen-dessert inclusion (cookie dough, brownie pieces for ice cream) | Binds and coats the inclusion so it survives freezing in dairy. | seyal | Moderate |
Supplement formats are mostly carrier, binder and fiber work, which is seyal territory. This is also where agglomerated earns its place most often, because so many of these formats end up as a scoop or a stick pack that somebody stirs into water.
| Application | What the gum does | Species | Agglomerated | Color sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standalone acacia fiber supplement powder | Is the soluble fiber active; the gum is the product itself. | seyal | Preferred | Moderate |
| Multi-fiber prebiotic supplement powder | Is one of the soluble fibers in the stack, with dispersion benefits. | seyal | Preferred | Moderate |
| IBS or low-FODMAP positioned fiber supplement | Is the low-FODMAP soluble fiber active, easy on digestion at higher daily doses. Worth checking: Some brands positioned specifically on IBS have moved to partially hydrolyzed guar gum for its certified low-FODMAP status. Gum acacia still fits the broader-positioned segment. | seyal | Preferred | Moderate |
| Powdered supplement: protein, meal replacement, greens, collagen | Helps the powder disperse, adds soluble fiber, and contributes mouthfeel. | seyal | Preferred | Moderate |
| Effervescent supplement tablet | Binds the tablet and improves flow in effervescent matrices. | seyal | Preferred | Moderate |
| Direct-compression vitamin or mineral tablet (multivitamin, single vitamin, mineral) | Binds the tablet in direct compression. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Wet-granulation pharmaceutical tablet | Binds the granulation as the wet mucilage. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Gummy vitamin or nutraceutical gummy | Contributes texture to the gummy and supports a fiber claim. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Prebiotic gummy supplement | Supports the prebiotic fiber claim while contributing texture. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Kid's vitamin gummy | Contributes texture to a pediatric gummy and supports claims. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Sports recovery, pre-workout, or electrolyte powder with fiber | Helps dispersion, carries flavor, and contributes soluble fiber. | seyal | Preferred | High |
| Cough syrup, cold + flu, or pediatric oral suspension | Suspends the actives and stabilizes the oil-phase flavor. | senegal | Moderate | |
| Probiotic capsule or powder (premium, clean-label) | Is the clean-label wall material around the probiotic cells. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Custom contract-manufacturing dry blend or powder formulation | Does multiple jobs in a dry blend: dispersion, fiber, binding, mouthfeel. | seyal | Moderate |
Fiber fortification, texture work, and binding a seasoning or a glaze onto a surface all run seyal. A glaze goes on wet and dries in place, so it is coating work rather than emulsion work. senegal belongs here only where a flavor oil has to stay emulsified in something that stays wet.
| Application | What the gum does | Species | Agglomerated | Color sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Protein bar, fiber bar, or snack bar (fiber claim) | Supports the fiber claim and helps bind the bar. Worth checking: Many cereal-bar formats use chicory inulin for lower cost per fiber gram. Gum acacia retains share where digestive tolerance, low-FODMAP positioning, or clean-label specificity matters. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Allergen-free or clean-label bar | Binds the bar and contributes soluble fiber in a clean-label matrix. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Granola, extruded cereal, or breakfast cereal (fiber-fortified) | Supports the fiber claim in cereal. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Fortified bread (hi-fibre, dough-conditioned line) | Supports the fiber claim and helps condition the dough. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Functional cookie or biscuit (fiber-fortified) | Supports the fiber claim and contributes texture. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Plant-based meat or vegan deli slice | Is a minor binder and stabilizer in the plant-protein matrix. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Vegan cheese or plant-based cheese | Binds and adds mouthfeel in plant-based cheese. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Dysphagia or medical food thickener (texture-modifying) | Modifies viscosity for safe swallowing. | senegal | Moderate | |
| Applesauce or fruit puree (fiber and stabilization) | Adds soluble fiber and helps suspend the pulp. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Premium ice cream, gelato, or non-dairy ice cream (multi-gum stabilizer blend) | Is one stabilizer in a multi-gum blend that holds the frozen texture. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Egg replacer or vegan baking aid | Binds the dough in a vegan baking formula. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Glazed roasted nut or flavored nut snack | Forms the glossy coating that holds the seasoning and slows oxygen pickup. | seyal | High | |
| Trail mix or coated savory snack (spice and flavor adhesion) | Binds the seasoning and spice coating to the snack pieces. | seyal | Moderate |
This category is where the liquid-or-dried question decides everything. Anything that ships as a liquid emulsion concentrate runs senegal, because the gum has to hold the droplets on the shelf. Anything spray-dried into a powder runs seyal, because once the water is gone the gum is wall material and seyal does that well at lower cost. Encapsulated vitamins and encapsulated oils sit on the dried side, even though an emulsion is made on the way there.
| Application | What the gum does | Species | Agglomerated | Color sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud emulsion concentrate (sold to bottlers and food manufacturers) | Stabilizes the oil droplets in your cloud emulsion concentrate at typical 20 to 30 percent gum loading. | senegal | High | |
| Spray-dried flavor (citrus, mint, savory, sweet, custom) | Carries and protects your flavor oil through spray drying, forming the wall around each droplet. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Encapsulated essential oil (for drink mixes, sachets, flavor systems) | Encapsulates the essential oil in a dry, dispersible format for drink mixes and sachets. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Spray-dried natural color (paprika, turmeric, annatto, beetroot, anthocyanin) | Protects the natural pigment from oxidation and water during storage. | seyal | High | |
| Liquid color concentrate | Stabilizes the oil emulsion in the liquid color matrix. | senegal | High | |
| Encapsulated oil-soluble vitamin (A, D, E, K, beta-carotene) | Carries and protects the oil-soluble vitamin through spray drying. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Encapsulated water-soluble mineral or active ingredient | Carries the mineral or active through spray drying and helps it disperse. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Encapsulated omega-3 fish or algae oil powder | Carries and protects the omega-3 oil, with the protein co-wall handling odor. | Either | Moderate | |
| Spray-dried natural sweetener (stevia, monk fruit) | Is the carrier matrix that holds the sweetener extract in a dispersible powder. Worth checking: Whether gum acacia prices competitively against maltodextrin at typical sweetener load levels depends on the load. Worth pricing it before you specify. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Pet food palatant (spray-dried flavor for kibble coating) | Carries the palatant flavor through spray drying for the kibble coat. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Pet food wet gravy stabilizer | Adds viscosity and helps suspend the meat solids in wet pet food. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Custom carrier system for spray drying (replacing maltodextrin) | Is the clean-label spray-dry carrier wall in your custom system. | seyal | Moderate | |
| MCT or oil powder carrier system (spray-dried oil encapsulation) | Carries the oil at 50 to 70 percent load in the spray-dried powder. | Either | Moderate | |
| Beverage cloud weighting agent or BVO replacement | Stabilizes the citrus oil cloud and helps weight the droplets without brominated vegetable oil. | senegal | High |
Cannabinoid work is nearly all oil-in-water emulsion with a very small droplet target, and almost all of it ships as a liquid, so this category runs senegal. The exception is the spray-dried powder, which follows the same rule as any other dried emulsion and runs seyal. Several of these formats are bought as a finished emulsion rather than as raw gum, and those are flagged below.
| Application | What the gum does | Species | Agglomerated | Color sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cannabis or hemp-derived THC seltzer or RTD | Holds the cannabinoid droplets stable so onset stays fast and the bottle stays clear. Worth checking: If your ingredient list shows "organic hemp emulsion" or "nano-emulsified hemp extract" as a single compound, you are buying a pre-made nano-emulsion, and the gum acacia sits at your emulsion supplier's tier rather than yours. | senegal | High | |
| CBD water or functional cannabinoid water | Holds the cannabinoid droplets stable at lower dose. Worth checking: Same as cannabis seltzer. Verify whether you are buying raw acacia or a pre-formulated compound emulsion. | senegal | High | |
| Cannabis or hemp-derived gummy edible | Is the cannabinoid emulsifier in the nano-emulsion premix that folds into the gummy syrup; not in the gel structure itself. Worth checking: If you buy a pre-made nano-emulsion premix rather than building your own, the gum acacia sits at your premix supplier's tier. If the gummy uses an oil-infused, slow-onset cannabinoid instead of a nano-emulsion, the gum acacia is there for matrix or fiber claim, and Acacia seyal is the right species. | senegal | Moderate | |
| Cannabis nano-emulsion premix or kit (B2B, for resale to brands) | Is the wall material that holds the cannabinoid droplets in your premix. | senegal | High | |
| Cannabis tincture or sublingual | Stabilizes the oil emulsion for sublingual delivery. | senegal | High | |
| Cannabis water-soluble shot | Stabilizes the nano-emulsion and helps dispersion in a concentrated shot. | senegal | High | |
| Cannabis spray-dried powder (water-soluble cannabinoid) | Emulsifies the cannabinoid oil and carries it through spray drying, protecting it in dry storage. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Hash rosin or solventless concentrate edible | Stabilizes the rosin in the nano-emulsion premix that folds into the edible matrix; not in the gel or matrix structure itself. Worth checking: If you buy a pre-made nano-emulsion premix rather than building your own, the gum acacia sits at your premix supplier's tier. If the edible uses oil-infused, slow-onset rosin instead of a nano-emulsion, the gum acacia is there for matrix or fiber claim, and Acacia seyal is the right species. | senegal | Moderate |
Non-food and technical applications. Documentation requirements differ here, so tell us the standard you are working to when you ask.
| Application | What the gum does | Species | Agglomerated | Color sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PFAS-replacement food packaging paper coating (oil and grease barrier, food-contact) | Forms the bio-based film that gives the oil and grease barrier on cellulose. | Either | Moderate | |
| Bio-based adhesive base resin (water-soluble adhesives) | Is the plant-derived binder in your water-soluble adhesive. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Lithographic printing fountain gum or plate gum (offset press chemical) | Desensitizes the non-image plate areas in offset printing. | seyal | Moderate | |
| Lateral flow assay or colloidal gold diagnostic stabilization (in-vitro diagnostics) | Stabilizes the antibody-gold conjugate during dry storage. | senegal | High | |
| Watercolor or artists pigment binder | Binds and disperses the pigment in the watercolor matrix. | senegal | High | |
| Custom blend, spec development, or contract sample | Is the specialty ingredient in your custom blend or development project. | Either | Moderate |
Send the specification, not the trade name. Trade names are private to whoever sells them and they tell us nothing about the material. The specification identifies it exactly, whoever it came from.
What we need to match a grade:
That is enough to identify the closest grade we stock. We send a sample so you can run it against your current material on your own bench, under your own conditions. If nothing we hold is a genuine match we will say so rather than send you something close enough to waste a trial on.
If all you have is a bag and a spec sheet you would rather not send, the parameters above are all on it. Read them off and we can work from that.
Use Acacia senegal when the job is holding an oil phase in water. It carries a higher arabinogalactan-protein fraction, and that protein is what anchors the oil droplet. Beverage flavor emulsions, cloud systems, cannabinoid nano-emulsions and hard candy all run senegal. Use Acacia seyal when the job is carrying, coating, binding or adding fiber. It runs lower in viscosity at high solids, which is why spray-dried flavor, confectionery panning, tablet binding and fiber fortification all run seyal.
It depends on whether the emulsion stays liquid or gets dried, and that single question settles it. If the finished product is a liquid, use Acacia senegal: the gum has to hold every oil droplet in suspension for the shelf life of the product, which is interfacial work driven by the arabinogalactan-protein fraction. Beverage emulsion concentrates, liquid colors and nano-emulsion premixes are all senegal. If you spray-dry that same emulsion into a powder, Acacia seyal works well. Once the water is gone the droplet is locked into a glassy matrix and the gum is acting as wall material rather than holding an interface open, which is what seyal is good at, usually at a lower cost. Spray-dried flavors, encapsulated oil-soluble vitamins, encapsulated essential oils and oil powders all belong on seyal. The common mistake is letting the word "emulsion" in a specification pull you to senegal for a product that actually ships as a powder.
Ask for optical rotation. Acacia seyal is dextrorotatory and Acacia senegal is levorotatory, so the sign of the rotation identifies the species on its own. It is the one parameter on a COA that cannot be matched by a blend claiming to be something it is not. If a supplier will not put optical rotation on the document, that tells you something.
Both forms work in every application. It is the same gum, and neither form will fail you. Spray-dried is the standard fine powder and the sensible default. Agglomerated has been through a second step that builds the particles into porous clusters, so it wets out without lumping, and that is worth specifying in one situation: when a person reconstitutes the powder into liquid by hand. Powdered beverages, stick packs, shaker-bottle and scoop formats. It also flows and compresses better on a tablet press. Anywhere the powder goes into a wet process or an industrial blend, spray-dried is fine and usually simpler to handle.
Germany. The raw gum is collected across the acacia belt, but it is cleaned, processed and spray-dried in Germany, and that is what determines country of origin on the certificate and the customs entry. Buyers who need a single, stable country of origin on file for their supplier qualification get one.
Yes. Both Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal are stocked in certified organic, in spray-dried and agglomerated form. Certification is Oregon Tilth to the USDA National Organic Program in the United States and Canada, and Ecocert in the EU. The organic certificate ships with the order.
Not in the form most wineries want. Wine fining and tartrate stabilization use liquid acacia preparations, and we supply powder. If a custom liquid preparation makes sense at your volume it is worth a conversation, but for standard cellar work you will be better served by a supplier who specializes in liquid oenological preparations.
Usually. Send the specification rather than the trade name: species, form, particle size or mesh, viscosity, moisture, ash, and the certification you need. Those parameters identify the material regardless of who sold it to you. We match to the closest grade we stock and send a sample so you can run it against your current material on your own bench.
Not sure yet?
The comparison kit ships both species, each in spray-dried and agglomerated form, so you can run them side by side. We confirm and ship from US stock.