The disadvantage of agar jelly is that it is easy to smell like fish. Most jellies sold in supermarkets are made of agar, and jelly made of agar has a fishy smell. Moreover, eating too much agar is easy to cause harm to human health.

Agar, also known as agar, seaweed, freeze-dried powder, agar, gelatin, agar, agar essence, agar powder, cold weather and shredded Chinese cabbage, is a kind of plant glue.

Introduction to agar

Agar is a polysaccharide extracted from seaweed and is one of the most widely used seaweed gels in the world. Widely used in food industry, pharmaceutical industry, daily chemical industry, bioengineering and many other aspects. Agar used in food can obviously change the quality of food and improve the grade of food.

Price is high. Its characteristics are solidification, stability and other physical and chemical properties, and it can form complexes with some substances. It can be used as thickener, coagulant, suspending agent, emulsifier, preservative and stabilizer. It is widely used to make granular oranges and various beverages, jellies, ice cream, cakes, soft sweets, canned food, meat products, eight-treasure porridge, tremella bird's nest, soup food, cold food and so on.

Agar can be used as culture medium and ointment matrix in chemical industry and medical research.