APEACHGIRL Myanmar Premium Natural Tragacanth Gum (16 oz / 1LB), Snow Swallow...

Looks like it should, no strong odors. When made into tea it does not fully dissolve but becomes soft and does infuse the water. Benefits remain to be seen. Just started trying this stuff.

I thought this looked interesting and wanted to try it since I like boba tea. I didn't have the ingredients to make traditional desserts with this, but it's a nice addition to refreshing drinks. It's nice and chewy, but more like small chunks with some long strands when it expands, and does not require cooking like tapioca pearls. I soaked some in fruit juices, like cranberry and pomegranate and then added lemon/lime soda and ginger ale, it was fantastic. I tried some in plain water to taste and it's basically flavorless, I suppose you could sweeten it as well. It expands quite a bit, I dropped about 5 chunks in a small juice glass and overnight it absorbed all the liquid and filled the glass, cool stuff. :) I'm not familiar with the health benefits but I guess it can be good for you. Some recipes call for dry roasting it but I haven't tried that, but I do plan to try it as a thickener in homemade salad dressings to avoid or reduce using oil as an emulsifier, and I also believe it would be good in soups. Great stuff, thanks.

Prior to trying tragacanth gum, I had limited knowledge of its uses. However, I found that it is an excellent ingredient for healthy desserts. This natural gum is obtained from the dried sap of various trees, typically peach trees, and has been used for cooking soups, desserts, and medicinal purposes. Although I was disappointed to find no recipes on the product or Amazon's product page, a quick YouTube search yielded several useful options. Following one of the recipes, I made a delicious fruit dessert by soaking a small amount of tragacanth gum in water overnight and then adding it to a mixture of blueberries, strawberries, and yogurt. While the product itself does not have any taste or color, it provided an interesting and enjoyable texture to my dessert. Initially, the product had a vinegar-like smell while in the bag, but this disappeared after soaking it overnight. I assume this may be due to some sort of preservative in the bag. Overall, I was pleased with my new healthy dessert made with this brand new ingredient, and I learned something interesting and new.

Tragacanth gum is also known as xue yan (snow birds nest), it is the poor man’s birds nest. Much more affordable than birds nest but also provides very similar health benefits as birds nest. Tragacanth gum comes from a plant and they are usually cooked as a dessert. They are tasteless on its own so sugar is usually added to the dessert. Should be soaked first before cooking. After cooking, it looks and tastes very similar to birds nest. Supposed to contain collagen, helps lower blood sugar, etc. A little goes a long way, don’t cook too much or you will end up with a whole pot of this stuff. A small handful of dried tragacanth gum is enough for 2 servings. My first time trying tragacanth gum and I think works great in desserts along with peach gum, red dates, etc.

Description made it sound delicious and like a desert treat but it’s no where near that. Nasty taste. No sweetening at all in some tea I made. Too hard to eat.

I got this on a whim because I'm trying to be healthy and lose weight and this has so many uses. Check the internet and you can find recipes for darn near everything with this. You have to preplan because it requires soaking over night. I tried a smoothie and it wasn't bad. I plan on trying other recipes since I'm not always a huge smoothie fan. This also says it can be used for beauty products and I'll have to look into that. You get a lot of this, it will last.

Finding a supply of tragacanth is difficult in the US for Asian soups and to make certain candies. There is no taste to this (this is good), but it has a gummy, sticky nature that works well with baking and to emulsify soups. For certain cold soups of Vietnamese origin, this works better than what I get in the local grocery in terms of cooking stability.

Clean, pure ingredient. Fun to watch re-hydrate. An interesting addition to the home apothecary for beauty treatments. Taste-tested a tiny bit...no discernable flavor, which must be why food use recipes add so much fruit and sweetener.