The gel is usually used as a thickening agent in toothpaste, ice cream and baby milk.

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Beginning in the 1940s Kistler helped create some commercial uses for aerogels, including an insecticide and a thickening agent for paint.

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And since the fruit has a high pectin content (around 25%) its offers the benefit of being a natural thickening and binding agent.

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