Agar can serve various functions in different industries, including its use as a gelling agent, thickener, stabilizer, suspending agent, preservative, humectant, emulsifier, and more. Here are some of the key applications of agar:
Food Industry: Yogurt, Gummy candies, Jellies, Lamb soup, Canned goods, Ham products, Beverages, ice cream, Frozen foods, Desserts, Jams, Puddings, Rice porridge, Dried cheese, Baked goods.
Personal Care& Cosmetics Industry: Toothpaste,Cosmetics, Air fresheners, Face masks, Moisturizers, Shampoos, Hair gels.
Construction Industry: Waterproofing and leak-proof coatings, Premium latex paints.
Pharmaceutical Industry: Capsules, Tablet disintegrants, Dental molds. Agar is rich in oligosaccharides and starch sulfates, which may havesome preventive effects on hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
Biochemical Engineering: Bacterial culture media, Microbial carriers, Agarose gel electrophoresis Agar's versatility and unique gelling properties make it a valuable ingredient invarious applications across different industries.
Agar agar powder for Yogurt
Improves the stability and texture of room- temperature yogurt, making the final product smooth and delicate. It enhances the product's stability during the heating process.
Advantages of application:
1.Fresh and smooth texture.
2.Strong flavor release.
3.Prevents whey separation in the product, extending the product's shelf life.
It can be applied in the production of jam and similar products, offering excellent gelation and elasticity. It provides high transparency,good relative permeability, and reusability, making it an excellent colloid for making jams.
Advantages of application:
1.Enhance platability, retains a firm texture but not sticky.
2.Nowater-shedding,highlyacid-resistant, and effectively extends the product's shelf life.
3.Easy to spread and has good adhesive properties.
Agar agar powder for Microbialculture medium
High purity agar can be used in the preparation of biological culture media. Its advantages include easy handling, easy resolution of aeration issues, and suitability for observation and research. It has a wide temperature range between its gel point and melting point, making it an excellent gelling agent for solid culture media.
Advantages of application:
1.High purity, quick solubility, and gels evenly.
2.High transparency.
3.Excellent user-friendliness.
Carrageenan for Ice cream
Carrageenan combines emulsification and stabilization functions, allowing for the even distribution of fats and other solids, reducing and inhibiting the separation of the emulsion and the formation of ice crystals.
Advantages of application:
1.Fine texture and excellent structure.
2.Smooth and creamy mouthfeel, soft and delicate.
3.Increases the expansion rate and resistance to melting of ice cream.
Carrageenan for Processed Meat product
Carrageenan is widely used in various meat products due to its unique reactivity with proteins. Carrageenan can form a uniform gel with proteins, creating a network structure during heating, which reduces the loss of meat juices. Additionally, adding carrageenan can lower the water activity in meat products, extending their shelf life.
Advantages of application:
1. Improves product elasticity and slicability.
2.Enhances water-holding capacity, improving texture.
3.Excellent emulsifying properties.
Carrageenan for Beer Fining
The malt extract clarifying agent is a specialty carrageenan derived from high-quality seaweed extraction. It is a natural, green product with safety recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This clarifying agent is available in both granular and powdered forms, with high effective ingredient content, excellent clarifying performance, uniform particle size, and stable quality.
Advantages of application:
1.Requires a small amount, easy dispersion, and filtration.
2.Enhances the non-biological stability of beer.
3.Effectively adsorbs proteins in wort, removes coagulable haze, making beer clear and bright.
4. Increases wort yield and extends the shelf life of beer.
Carrageenan for Pet Food
Utilizes semi-refined carrageenan, extracted from high-quality seaweed, which forms a uniform gel with the proteins in pet food, helping retain a significant amount of moisture and reducing the loss of meat juices. It serves as a natural food additive for pet food production.
Advantages of application:
1.Enhances palatability and increases appeal to pets.
2.Improves the product's water and oil retention properties.
3.Suppresses the dissolution and volatilization of flavor components, lowers the water activity of the product, and extends its shelf life.
Carrageenan for Toothpaste
Carrageenan, known for its high stability, is an ideal adhesive and thickener for medicated toothpaste formulations that are complex and challenging to stabilize. Carrageenan is not only highly salt-resistant and enzyme- resistant but also improves the thixotropy and dispersibility of the paste. It serves as an ideal adhesive and thickener.
Advantages of application:
1.Enhances and improves the stability of the paste.
2. The paste has a very fine, smooth, and shiny texture.
3.Exhibits special thixotropy and can self-fuse after breaking.
Low acyl product characteristics: good gel property, high transparency, strong suspension property, good taste, good acid and thermal stability, excellent gelling and compounding properties.
Orange fruit suspension: recommended dosage of 0.015-0.18%
Low acyl product characteristics: good gel property, high transparency, strong suspension property, good taste, good acid and thermal stability, excellent gelling and compounding properties.
Coconut suspension: recommended usage of 0.018-0.02% for 5*5mm and 00.022-0.025% for 10*10mm;
Low acyl product characteristics: good gel property, high transparency, strong suspension property, good taste, good acid and thermal stability, excellent gelling and compounding properties.
Qiya seed and Luoliezi suspension: recommended dosage of 0.018-0.02%
Carrageenan is characterized by its strong gelling capacity, high viscosity, and solubility, as well as satisfactory elasticity and transparency. When used in conjunction with other food gums such as locust bean gum and konjac gum, carrageenan can have a significant synergistic effect, improving the gel properties, enhancing gel elasticity, and water retention.
As a gelling agent, thickener, stabilizer, and suspending agent, carrageenan finds wide applications in the food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries. Its primary application is in the food industry.
APPLICATIONS Widely used in processed meat products, sweet food, dairy & beverages, pet food, medicine and daily chemicals, etc.
Carrageenan for Soft sweets
Carrageenan is a thermally reversible gelling agent suitable for the production of crystal-clear gummy candies. It offers several advantages for this application:
1.Crystal clear, elastic, doesn't melt in summer.
2.Low calorie, similar to the texture of gelatin, without sticking to the teeth.
3.Easy to mold, very much user-friendly.
4.Good flavor releasing.
Carrageenan for Jelly Dessert
carrageenan is a high-quality natural colloid known for its excellent gelling and emulsifying properties. When used to make jelly, it offers several advantages:
1.Crystal clear and minimal water separation.
2.Smooth, fresh, and pleasantly elastic texture.
3. Requires smaller amount of addition to optimize cost structure.
Carrageenan for face masks is made from natural seaweed extracts from clean marine areas. It possesses excellent gel properties and is naturally non-irritating, making the skin more hydrated and elastic.
Advantages of application:
1.Excellent film-forming properties.
2.Excellent water retention.
3.Continuously releases active ingredients.
The air freshener gelling agent, primarily formulated is a new product that offers higher strength and greater clarity compared to agar gels.
Advantages of application:
1.Excellent water retention.
2. Resistant to high temperatures and extreme cold, strong stability.
3.Long-lasting fragrance release.
Capsule-grade carrageenan is derived from high-quality, natural seaweed from clean marine areas. The product is suitable for all cultural backgrounds and religious beliefs, including Muslims, Jews, Hindus, and vegetarians, making it an ideal alternative to traditional animal-based capsules with high safety.
Advantages of application:
1.Excellent film-forming properties and capsule wall gloss.
2.Effectively reduces the risk of moisture absorption rate of the content.
3. Resistant to low humidity, less prone to breakage, and maintains its shape at high temperatures.
Low acyl product characteristics: good gel property, high transparency, strong suspension property, good taste, good acid and thermal stability, excellent gelling and compounding properties.
Agar agar powder for Tissue Culture
Plant tissue agar is used as a gelling agent for plant tissue growth and in vitro reproduction. The extraction of seaweed is processed using a unique method that can eliminate any residues of acids, salts, bleaches, and pathogens commonly used in the production of agar. It does not react with sulfates or nitrogen-containing compounds, thus providing stable and long-lasting nutritional support in a sterile environment.
Application scpe:
Micropropagation technology
In vitro plant culture
Genetic engineering in plant research
