also denotes guar gums other natural polysaccharides which will form satisfactory films include gum karaya gum acacia british gum agar starch carib gum gum arabic carrageenin and xanthan the natural polysaccharide film forming ingredient includes natural polysaccharides and natural polysaccharide derivatives and may be a natural polyuronide film forming material for example a pectin or an algin or mixtures of the same or may be a natural galactomannan film forming material for example locust bean gum or guar gum some of the natural polysaccharide film forming materials which may be employed in the present wrapper composition are hydrolyzed guar gum locust bean gum and especially sodium alginate the polysaccharide material especially the pectinaceous material and or guar gum may be employed as the sole film forming ingredient or may be combined with other film forming ingredients secondary film forming agents as defined below it is aclnowledged in this respect that the polysaccharide film forming material and particularly the pectinaceous material or guar gum may be used alone or it may be used in combination with an equal amount or less of a second film forming ingredient said second film forming ingredient is selected in a non limiting manner from a natural polysaccharide such as locust bean gum or certain alginates the term u2018 polysaccharide u2019 also refers to either synthetic ort natural polyuronides wherein natural polyuronide are film forming materials including the pectins and algins and the natural galactomannan film forming materials including locust bean gum and guar.