Inhabitants of the South Seas have been cooking unicorn greens into jellied gelatin (known to be carrageenan) for consumption since ancient times, and have called this gelatin

agar-agar or agar in the Malay language, which has since become the world's lingua franca for agar.

Agar-agar is also known as agar gelatin, and is also known in the market as "jelly powder" and "cold powder". Ji Minghou, Zeng Chengkui and other (1952) suggested

with "agar" on behalf of agar, in honor of China's earliest unicorn on Hainan Island is boiled frozen gelatin for food; and speak of all seaweed polysaccharide

all unified in a gel for the end of the word to replace "fat", "powder", "agar", "powder", "jelly", "powder" and so on. ", "powder" and other confusing words. "Agar" this name has been adopted in 1977 for China's Pharmacopoeia.

Ji Minghou January 1993 edited - "Seaweed Chemistry" (Science Press)

Chinese name: agar

English name: Agar

Chinese aliases: agar gum; foreign vegetable; large vegetable silk; foreign powder

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Subdivisional formula: ( C12H18O9)n

Physical properties: water-soluble SOLUBLE IN HOT WATER

Actions: It can be used as thickener, coagulant, suspending agent, emulsifier, stabilizer, freshness-keeping agent, adhesive and biological culture medium.

Agar can also be used to refer to food:

Yuan Liu Guan's "Sending Wang Jixue Xiuzhu Ma Boyong to the Capital in the Rhyme of Jie Bo Chang Pending Preparation" (次伯长待制韵送王继学修撰马伯庸应奉扈从上京) reads, "Battling for the wine of Tong into the agar, the green and golden hooks are hanging down to the horse."