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Agar-agar is an alga polysaccharide extracted from a type of red seaweed. It’s a pure and natural product with high gel strength without any chemical composition, yet it is rich in iodine and protein. We are proud to announce that our agar-agar reaches GB1972-80 China National Standard as well as exporting requirements.

Agar-agar has a wide variety of usage. It can be used as gelatin, emulsifier, thickening, and gelling agents. Some examples are:

MEDICINE field: it is used as a culture media in plant tissue culture, in pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria and fungi; it is also used in the preparation of dental casts and the production of hollow medicine capsules.

FOOD field: it has been used high performance gelling, texturizing, emulsifying, stabilizing, and thickening agents in ice cream, jelly, gummy candy, pork luncheon meat, ham, sausage, tomato sauce, coconut sauce, etc; it is also used as a clarifying agent in winemaking and brewing. The usage portion of agar-agar is ordinarily between 0.3 and 1.5%.

CHEMICAL field: agar-agar has been exploited in making high-grade cream for protecting skin, hair emulsion, gel for finalizing hair design, etc.

BUILDING field: due to its stickiness, agar-agar is used in all kinds of paint for waterproofing and preventing leaking.

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The specification of our agar-agar is as follows:

Name of Index	GB1972-80 National standard	American Fcc Standard	Enterprise standard
Name of Index	GB1972-80 National standard	American Fcc Standard	One grade (powder)	Two grade (powder)	strip
Moisture	≤22％	≤20％	≤15％	≤15％	≤20％
Resiue on ignition	≤5％	≤6.5％	≤3％	≤3％	≤4％
Water Insoluble	≤1％	≤1％	≤1％	≤1％	≤1％
Absorbability	Up to the requirement	≤75ml	Up to the requirement	Up to the requirement	Up to the requirement
Arsenic(As)	≤0.0001％	≤0.0003％	≤0.0001％	≤0.0001％	≤0.0001％
Heavy metals(Pb)	≤0.004％	≤0.004％	≤0.004％	≤0.004％	≤0.004％
Asylum	Up to the requirement	Iodine test not blue	Up to the requirement	Up to the requirement	Up to the requirement
Gel strength 1.5％ 20℃	Not stipulate		≥900g/c㎡	≥700 g/c㎡	≥500g/c㎡
Particle size	Not stipulate		60-80mesh	60-80mesh	strip
Appearance			White of slightly yellow strips or powder

Packing:1kg in a little bag
1×20 kgs in a carton inner plastic bag

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