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Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Ingredients
- Agar
- Food Additive Number
- E 406, INS 406
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Uses
Agar agar, polysaccharide extracted from seaweed, is one of the world’s most versatile seaweed gels. It is widely used in many fields such as food industry, pharmaceutical industry, daily chemicals, and biological engineerin.
Agar has an extremely useful and unique property in the food industry. Its characteristics: it has coagulability, stability, and can form complexes with some substances and other physical and chemical properties, and can be used as thickeners, coagulants, suspending agents, emulsifiers, preservatives and stabilizers. Widely used in the manufacture of oranges and various beverages, jellies, ice cream, pastries, and more.
Agar is used in the chemical industry, medical research, media, ointment and other uses.
Properties
- Appearance
- Milky or Yellowish Fine Powder
- Typical Properties
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Arsenic Content | max. 1 | ppm | — |
| Gel Strength (at 1.5%, 20°C) | min. 900 | g/cm2 | NIKKAN |
| Gelation Point | 35 - 42 | °C | — |
| Lead Content | max. 5 | ppm | — |
| Loss on Drying | max. 12 | % | — |
| Mesh Size (Through 80 mesh) | 90 | % | — |
| pH Value | 6-7 | — | — |
| Residue on Ignition | max. 5 | % | — |
| Sulphate Content | max. 1 | % | — |
| Total Heavy Metal | max. 20 | ppm | — |
| Total Plate Count | max. 3000 | cfu/ g | — |
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance
Packaging & Availability
- Packaging Type