It doesn’t have any nutritional value or health benefits, but it can be a very useful additive to all kinds of products. Most people don’t need to worry about avoiding cellulose gum or limiting their intake.

Food Glue Food glue is your best alternative to Tylose powder. Food glue is made using a soluble gum paste-like Tylose powder, CMC powder, xanthan gum, and sugarcane paste.

Gum-Tex is the name for the gumpaste powder sold by Wilton. Recently I saw that they added the name Tylose to the bottle. Wilton used to call their product just Gum-Tex but now they added the Tylose name to it. But Gum Tex is not made with CMC.

Tylose powder is used as a binding agent with fondant to make gumpaste, and you can combine it with powdered sugar to use as a paste for edible flowers.

Tylo Powder is vital for transforming sugarpaste into a modelling paste and starts to work straight away, no need to leave this overnight. If you think your paste is too firm or starts to crack, add more sugarpaste and knead this in well.

Put 1/4 tsp of tylose powder in a small bowl or container. Add 2 Tbs of warm water and stir with a fork to break up the Tylose lumps the best you can. (The mixture will look lumpy; this is normal). Cover and put it in the fridge overnight.

This powder can be easily obtained in cake supply shops. Not only is CMC used for making such decorations, it is also very effective as edible glue to hold fondant pieces as well as gum paste pieces together.

Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) is an anionic water-soluble polymer obtained from cellulose. As the material is derived from natural cellulose, it exhibits gradual biodegradability and can be incinerated after use, making it a very environmentally friendly material.

CMC, or Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, is the most widely used additive for rolled fondant. Used to give FondX or Elite by FondX gum paste like qualities to be made into bows, flowers, figures, or decorative accents in order for the fondant to dry properly into the designer’s intended shapes.

Tylose powder is effectively the same as CMC and works in the same way. Tylose is typically a brand name and you’ll see CMC is the main ingredient in Tylose Powder. Gum Tragacanth is the natural version of all these gums.

How much do I use? Add 1 level teaspoon per 250g of fondant icing. If you require your icing to be softer then add less CMC (i.e. add 1/2 teaspoon to 250g of fondant icing).

CMC is a cellulose based thickener for water-based paints and non-reactive dyes. Not to be used as a thickener for Procion fibre-reactive dyes as the dye will bond itself to the thickener instead of the fabric. 2tbsps (roughly 30gms) will make around 500ml of reasonably thick paste. Adjust to suit.

Tylo powder (also known as Tylose powder) is used to make sugarpaste dry harder than it normally would. Not only that but it is also natural and useful for making edible glue. Edible glue recipe: Mix 1 part Tylo Powder to 30 parts water.

Is Luster Dust edible? Luster Dust is a non toxic decorative color not intended to be consumed.