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Fruit/vegetable "glue"

KennethT

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KennethT

KennethT

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I'm looking to bond two pieces of fruit or vegetables together for a cold application - is there anything out there that can do this type of thing? I was thinking there might be something like a veggie equivalent to transglutaminase (not necessarily enzyme based) - something that you could spread on one slice of fruit/veg and then apply another slice and they would bond together...

I might be able to make a strong enough gel out of agar or gelatin, but don't know if it would have the strength to hold things stuck together, plus, I don't know if it would taste weird...

Thanks for the ideas!

Tri2Cook

Tri2Cook

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Check out this article from the folks at Ideas in Food. It discusses how they approached the idea from start to... well, I won't say "to finish" because they don't really finish. They're constantly evolving their ideas.

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It's kinda like wrestling a gorilla... you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is tired.

KennethT

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Very interesting... I had thought of pectin, but I've never used it before and don't know much about it... also, I got to this link which is also interesting

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