Agar, the scientific name agar, also known as the oceanic vegetable, Haidong vegetable, frozen powder , agar, stone flower gum, swallow vegetable essence, oceanic powder , cold days, big vegetable silk, is a kind of plant gum , commonly used in the sea of the unicorn vegetable, stone flower vegetable, Jiangwei, etc., made of colorless, colorless, no It is a colorless, non-fixed solid, soluble in hot water. It is widely used in the food industry and is also commonly used as a bacterial culture medium.

It has a wide range of applications in the food industry, pharmaceutical industry, daily chemical industry, biological engineering and many other aspects, agar used in food can obviously change the quality of food, improve the grade of food.

Use:

Agar has an extremely useful and unique property in the application of food industry. Its characteristics: coagulability, stability, the ability to form complexes with a number of substances and other physicochemical properties.

It can be used as thickener, coagulant, suspending agent, emulsifier, preservative and stabilizer. It is widely used in the manufacture of granular orange and various beverages, jelly, ice cream, pastry, soft candy, canned food, meat products, eight treasures porridge, silver ear bird's nest, soup food, cold food and so on.

Agar in the chemical industry, medical research, can be used as culture medium, ointment base and other uses.

Meanwhile, in biological experiments, in the process of making the culture medium of microorganisms, agar can be added as a coagulant to convert the liquid culture medium into solid culture medium or semi-solid culture medium.