Table 6. Some Commonly Used Ingredients That Contain Significant Amounts of Emulsifiers.

ingredient	key emulsifier component
egg yolk	phosholipid (lecithin)
egg white	globular proteins
whey powder	whey proteins
milk powder	caseins and whey proteins
soy bean	phospholipids and proteins
mustard seed (especially yellow mustard)	mustard mucilage, a gum of mainly polysaccharide origin acts as a shear-thinning thickener and possibly as an emulsifier(219)
flax seed	flax seed mucilage, polysaccharides, which act as shear-thinning thickeners(220)