KELTROL V is a food-grade xanthan gum suitable for use in vegan food preparations. As a thickening agent, KELTROL V provides excellent suspension for insoluble solids and oil droplets in food products. It imparts high solution viscosity at low concentrations and exhibits little solution viscosity change over a wide temperature range. These properties allow KELTROL V to provide freeze-thaw stability in food products. KELTROL V also fully recovers viscosity after shearing, exhibiting low viscosity while food processing like pumping. It is compatible with and stable in solutions containing high salt concentrations as well as soluble and stable in both acid and alkaline conditions in foods. KELTROL V provides synergistic increase in viscosity when used with other thickeners like guar and locust bean gum in food formulations.