Agar-agar is a kind of hydrocolloid, available in powder or strip, insoluble in cold water, soluble in hot water. Agar-agar is white or off-white, odorless or slightly odorous. FDA has listed agar-agar as a recognized safe product. As a gelatinizer, agar-agar is widely used in food industry as a suspending agent, thickening agent, stabilizer or clarificant. Fruit chewy candy made from agar-agar has refreshing mouth-feel and higher transparency than normal chewy candy. Agar-agar can also be used as an aperientsor culture base of microbes with applications in medical research.
Greenfresh agar-agar is a natural high-molecular polysaccharide extracted from Gracilaria Gelidium and is widely used in the food industry, medical industry, and chemical and bioengineering.
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