A polysaccharide with glucose units linked as in CELLOBIOSE. It is the chief constituent of plant fibers, cotton being the purest natural form of the substance. As a raw material, it forms the basis for many derivatives used in chromatography, ion exchange materials, explosives manufacturing, and pharmaceutical preparations. The most abundant organic material found in plants forming the principal constit. of their cell walls giving them structural strength. Anticaking agent, binding agent and other uses in food