Agar-agar is a polysaccharide substance extracted from the natural red alga. It is one of the seaweed gels that are the most widely applied in the world. Agar-agar has had a history of hundreds of years as a food. In the 1950s, western countries began to produce agar-agar powder by industrial means. Later, it is applied to food, cosmetics, pharmaceutical and many other fields.
BLG selects excellent natural Gracilaria, Gelidium amansii and other seaweeds as the raw material of agar-agar and performs refining and purification with scientific methods. The color of agar-agar varies from white to pale yellow. It features the colloid feeling, has no smell or has a slight characteristic smell. It is insoluble in cold water and is soluble after boiling.
