CMC always be used in frozen foods as dispersing agent and excipients, prevent from ice crystals, keep final products' uniformity, enlarge the volume, improve taste; adding CMC in baking foods, can enhance toughness, prevent breakage, improve dough surface gloss and flavor.
It is widely used in the petroleum industry as well digging mud treatment agents, synthetic detergents, organic builders, textile printing and dyeing sizing agents, water-soluble colloidal tackifiers for daily chemical products, viscosity increasers and emulsifiers for the pharmaceutical industry, and tackifiers for the food industry. Thickeners, adhesives for ceramic industry, industrial pastes, sizing agents for paper industry, etc. [4] Used as a flocculant in water treatment, mainly used in wastewater sludge treatment, it can increase the solid content of the filter cake.
