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Cassia tora splits is manufactured from the seeds of Senna obtusifolia or Cassia obtusifolia or Cassia Tora or Cassia Occidentalis.Cassia grows mainly in subtropical regions and is grows mostly wild and occasionally cultivated. The name is derived from Latin words obtus meaning blunt and folium meaning leaf. This is annual plant that mainly grows after the Indian monsoon season. This plant bears pods of nearly 20cm which contain many cylindrical seeds. These are the cassia tora seeds that are usually broken into two halves and referred to as cassia splits.These splits are usually called by different names like cassia tora gum splits, cassia gum splits, cassia splits, senna splits, cassia senna splits etc.The seed consists of an outer husk, an endosperm (cassia tora split) and the ovary or germ. Only the endosperm or split, which contains mainly polysaccharides, is used for the production of the cassia gum.

Cassia Tora seed is very hard seeds. It is also bold and small. Cassia plant grows in India after monsoon which comes in June or July. Cassia tora seeds will be collected by poor people from forest in November December. The Cassia plant mainly grows in the tropical regions of India and is commercially supplied in bulk from regions of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh also some part of Gujarat and Maharashtra.

We are offering cassia splits mainly consists of mannose and galactose units. These are pale yellow splits that are normally soluble in hot water. They act as thickening agents and form gels with carageenan and xanthan. These cassia tora splits are often used as food additives.