Agar

Product Details

 Agar is a polysaccharide extracted from seaweed and is currently one of the most widely used seaweed gums in the world. It has a wide range of applications in the food industry, pharmaceutical industry, daily chemical industry, bioengineering, etc. The use of agar in food can significantly change the quality of food and improve the quality of food. The price is high. Its characteristics: it has coagulability, stability, and can form complexes with some substances. It can be used as a thickener, coagulant, suspending agent, emulsifier, preservative and stabilizer. It is widely used in the manufacture of orange and various beverages, jelly, ice cream, pastries, soft candy, canned food, meat products, eight-treasure porridge, white fungus bird's nest, soup, cold food, etc. Agar can be used as culture medium, ointment base and other purposes in the chemical industry and medical research.


Main Application:

Agar-Agar

Food

Gelling agent and stabilizer for candy, jelly, yokan, canned food, ham, enema, etc.; thickener and stabilizer for jam, peanut butter, tahini, etc.; stabilizer for ice cream, sorbet and other cold foods; various juices and drinks The staging suspension agent; clarifying agent such as wine, soy sauce and vinegar. Instant agar gum has a better application effect in products such as room temperature yogurt and cigarette pop beads

Pharmaceutical industry

Reduce blood fat, regulate bowel, detoxification and beautify skin.

Biological Engineering

Bacterial culture medium and microbial carrier, etc.



Product Standard:

Item

FAO-WHO1995

GB1886.239-2016

CP2020

E406

Appearance

White to light yellow powder

White or light yellow powder

 

White to light yellow powder

White or light yellow powder

Particle size

-

-

-

Min. 95% pass 80 mesh

Water insoluble matter,w/%

≤1

≤ 1.0

-

≤1

Ash,w-%

6.5

≤ 5.0

≤ 5.0

6.5

Loss on drying,w/%

≤20

≤ 22.0

-

≤15

Acid insoluble ash/%

-

-

≤0.5

≤0.5

Gel strength(1.5%w/w)

-

-

-

 

Starch

No blue colour

Pass test

No blue colour

No blue colour

Gelatine


Pass test

No turbidity appears

-

Heavy metals as Pb-(mg/kg)%

≤10

-

≤0.4

-

干燥失重/%

-

-

≤20.0

-

Foreign bodies/%

-

-

1.0

-

Water absorption/ml

-

-

≤75

-

Lead(Pb)/(mg/kg)

-

≤ 3.0

-

≤5

Arsenic(As)/(mg/kg)

≤3

≤ 3.0

≤3%

≤3

arsenate/(mg/kg)

-

-

≤3

-

Total plate count

-

-

-

≤5000cfu-g

Aerobic plate count/cfu/g

-

-

≤103

-

Yeast and mould /cfu/g

-

-

≤102

≤300

Salmonella

-

-

-

Absent in 5 g

E. coli

-

-

Negative

Absent in 5 g


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