It comes from a cluster bean called Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, and it belongs to the legume family. The seeds are broken and separated into parts. The part referred to as the “undehusked guar split” is ...

Without guar, crystals would cover ice cream much faster, chocolate milk would taste watery and that cranberry sauce leftover from Thursday's Thanksgiving feast might drip off your fork. A shortage of ...

How can the process of extracting natural gas bring wealth to once-destitute bean farmers in India, and at the same time, drive up the price of ice cream? Two words: guar gum. For thousands of years, ...