Xanthan gum is a biological polysaccharide with great development potential

which plays important role of thicking

emulsifying

stabilizing owing to the unique molecular structure and has been widely used in daily chemical industry

petroleum exploitation

textile printing and dyeing

food

pharmaceuticals

coating

pesticide and other industry fields. This article summarized the structure

characteristics and production technology and main application areas of xanthan gum

introduced the application research status about using xanthan gum in pesticide formulation processing

and pointed out that the superior rheological properties of xanthan gum was of great significance to the improvement of suspension stability of pesticide formulations such as suspension concentrate

emulsion in water

suspo-emulsion

finally looked into the future prospects for the development of xanthan gum.