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product_id: 2068540
title: "Sodium Alginate"
brand: "willpowder"
price: "R82"
currency: ZAR
in_stock: null
reviews_count: 6
url: https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/2068540-sodium-alginate
store_origin: ZA
region: South Africa
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# No flavor Food-grade quality 16 oz capacity Sodium Alginate

**Brand:** willpowder
**Price:** R82
**Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock

## Summary

> ✨ Elevate Your Cooking Game with WillPowder Sodium Alginate! ✨

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Sodium Alginate by willpowder
- **How much does it cost?** R82 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Currently out of stock
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.co.za](https://www.desertcart.co.za/products/2068540-sodium-alginate)

## Best For

- willpowder enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted willpowder brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Easy to Use:** Just mix and create stunning textures effortlessly!
- • **Sustainable Sourcing:** Crafted with care for both your kitchen and the planet!
- • **Health-Conscious Choice:** No discernable flavor means it won't alter your recipes!
- • **Perfect for Molecular Gastronomy:** Unleash your inner chef and impress your guests!
- • **Transform Your Culinary Creations:** Elevate your dishes with this versatile thickening agent!

## Overview

WillPowder Sodium Alginate is a 16-ounce container of food-grade thickening agent, perfect for culinary enthusiasts looking to create innovative dishes without altering flavors.

## Description

WillPowder Story: Chef Will Goldfarb is widely known as the ‘Golden Boy’ of pastry and has worked in the kitchens of famous names such as Ferran Adria, Tetsuya Wakuda, Paul Liebrandt and Morimoto. He received the Starchef “Rising Star” award and earned a James Beard nomination for Best Pastry Chef in America. In addition to this, he was regarded in Ferran Adria’s recent book, Food for Art, Art for Food, as one of the world’s leading modern chefs and was identified in Lisa Abend’s book, The Sorcerer’s Apprentices, as one of the finest chefs in the world to pass through the El Bulli kitchen. In 2006, he ventured out on his own to open the critically acclaimed Room4Dessert in New York which offered an Avant garde menu of edible dessert cocktails, plated desserts and wine pairings. Together with New York University’s Chemistry and Food Studies Department, he also founded The Experimental Cuisine Collective, an interdisciplinary network at the nexus of food, science, and social network. Now residing in Bali, Chef Will directs the pastry program at KU DE TA where his brand of cuisine blends the finest elements of cutting edge gastronomy with traditional techniques/flavors creating delicious, imaginative preparations using local and sustainable products. Room4Dessert is now open in Bali with it's own cookbook!Chef Will developed WillPowder specialty pastry powders for experienced, professional chefs as well as novice home cooks wanting a reliable source for the best pure ingredients allowing creation of differing textures and flavors in dishes. He has spent the better part of a decade scouring the world for the best products from the world's most innovative chefs. WillPowders are the new kitchen staples for producing foams, clouds, airs, fruit caviar, hot gelatins, and more with specialty technical additive products for gelification, spherification, emulsification, effervescense, deconstructing or thickening. Have fun experimenting with Molecular Gastronomy!

## Features

- Pack of one, 16-ounce
- No discernable flavor.

## Product Details

- **Brand:** WillPowder
- **Item Form:** Powder
- **Unit Count:** 16.0 Ounce
- **Number of Items:** 1
- **Manufacturer:** WillPowder

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## Questions & Answers

**Q: Will this foam if you put it in your mouth?**
A: Sodium Alginate will not foam if you put it in your mouth. It will quickly turn into a solid gel which will stick to the inside of your mouth. The taste is not particularly pleasant. I just tried it and I am still trying to remove it. It is very sticky.

**Q: If the taste isn't pleasant how is it covered up when doing spherification with a liquid.**
A: The flavor is tiny when added to the juice do you can't taste it

**Q: this looks like a powder, is it a powder or a gel??**
A: Powder but with the right process and another chemical it will gel things into "pearls"

**Q: I purchased a tub of sodium alginate from you on March 29, 2013.  It is still unopened.  What is the expiration date unopened and opened?**
A: If kept dry and unopened, should be good for more than 5 years.  Chemically pretty inert and not prone to biologic degradation

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good for GERD/LPR
*by A***R on October 29, 2015*

(Please note that I am not a doctor, but this has been my personal experience with this product). I bought this for my LPR reflux, since many US products don't contain enough alginate. Some US chewable antacid products state they contain aginic acid, but if you try grinding them down and mixing them with water or saliva, many of them will not gel. And when you expose them to acid, many will not gel or foam creating the raft. So these are essentially useless for my LPR.Luckily, there is a 2011 medical study for GERD published at the US NIH (NIHMS452859) that found that 1000 mg sodium alginate, 426 mg sodium bicarbonate, and 650 mg calcium carbonate did reduce reflux after eating by creating the alginate gel/foam raft, keeping acid away from the esophagus.Well sodium bicarbonate is just baking soda, and calcium carbonate is found in a typical Tums-type antacid. So I have tried to replicate this formulation by converting to US teaspoon measurements.So right after I received the new 16 oz container of WillPowder sodium alginate, I measured the volume in cubic centimeters by using a ruler and applied the equation for cylinder volume and measured about 647.5 cc's. Since there are approximately 453.6 grams in 16 oz., there should be approximately 1.43 cc's of sodium alginate per gram. But this is a rough estimate. And since 1 cc is approximately .20 teaspoons, to get 1000 mg (1 gram) of sodium alginate I calculated that I would need around .29 teaspoons, which is slightly more than 1/4 teaspoon.So I mixed a slightly rounded 1/4 teaspoon of sodium alginate with just under 1/8 teaspoon of baking soda (1/8 teaspoon of baking soda is somewhere around 500-600 mg). I also used a mortar and pestle to crush one 750 mg chewable calcium carbonate antacid tablet into a powder (it is 100 mg more but I figure that should be okay). Then I mixed all of this together with a few ounces of water.The alginate will begin to gel, and I mix it occasionally for a few minutes, and then when it seems homogeneous, I spoon it into my mouth. It tastes pretty good. A small amount of gas was produced a few minutes later causing me to burp.So what happens to that gel once you swallow it and it hits your stomach acid? Well, you can see this effect by pouring the gel into a bowl and then pour an acid on it (like vinegar) to mimic stomach acid. You will see the small amount of baking soda react and fill the gel with CO2 air pockets, creating the all-important raft.I calculated that there is enough Sodium Alginate in this container for about 317 uses, and so it is the cheapest solution I could find for my LPR reflux in the US. Another benefit is that since it is not a chewable tablet, I'm not grinding down chemical compounds with my teeth. I'm not sure what the long term use of chewable antacids does to my teeth and gums, so a liquid formulation should avoid these issues. However, the long term use of antacids in general can have side-effects and also create nutrient deficiencies, so please consult with your doctor before doing so.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Never has been just for cooking
*by T***E on July 21, 2010*

I've been using for almost a year now and NOT for cooking! Look up the history of this product. Japanese used it after WWII to counter the effects of our atomic bomb. Strongest known natural detox, primarily used for radiation and heavy metal poisoning. I've tried many detoxes on the market. ALL at least increased my abdominal pain and many increased my vomiting and some even led to my spitting up blood and it came out the other end, too! So far NO SIDE EFFECTSS!!! My fatigue has lessoned, more mentally alert, pain seems to have subsided, also.I fill my own empty capsules. O size and take 1 in the a.m. and again in the p.m.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works really well for reflux
*by D***T on August 4, 2015*

I have been using this as a reflux treatment for 2 years - eliminates all symptoms. It doesn't dissolve in water. You have to use a blender.1 teaspoon of Sodium Alginate1 teaspoon of Calcium Carbonate1 cup of waterPut in blender at high speed for several minutes. I usually make 4 or 5 cups at a time (fill the blender). This will make a white goop. It will also take a lot of dish soap for the cleanup.Store in a Tupperware container. It doesn’t need refrigeration but I like it better when it is cold. It doesn’t have any flavor to speak of.Take 1 to 3 tablespoons whenever symptoms are felt. This will often eliminate any symptoms for several hours. Sometime I sometimes have to take it more often. If there are symptoms at night, you can also take it just before bed or during the night. One cup usually lasts me a full day and is equivalent to about 2 tums – but way more effective. I have been taking this remedy for more than two years and the only side effect I can report is that it may make one rather regular. In any case I feel that using this mixture is much more preferable to taking Prilosec or Zantec.

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*Last updated: 2026-02-20*