Agar Agar

This Agar Agar is used extensively in laboratory research as a substrate for growing bacteria and fungi in pure cultures.  This Agar Agar can be used as a culture media for practically all pathogenic and nonpathogenic bacteria and fungi because it is does not metabolise easily and has a good gel firmness, elasticity, clarity and stability. 

The earliest industrial application of Agar Agar was in the preparation of solid microbiological media. Its  several properties make it an ideal solidifying substance for microbiological media, particularly its resistance to microbial degradation. Because of its high gellifying power and its vegetable origin, Agar Agar constitutes a natural non- toxic matrix for the formation of culture media in Microbiology.

Agar Agar Food Grade Powder is derived from seaweeds of the Rhodophyceae class. It is used as a high performance gelling agent, especially as a 100% vegetarian substitute for Gelatin, which is manufactured from animal bones and skin in the food industry. 

Agar Agar Food Grade Powder can be used to make jellies, puddings, and custards. To make jelly, it is boiled in water until the solids dissolve. Sweeteners, flavoring, coloring and fruits or vegetables are then added and the liquid is poured into molds to be served as desserts and vegetable aspics, or incorporated with other desserts, such as a jelly layer in a cake.

Agar Agar’s ability to produce clear colourless, odourless, and natural gels without the support of other colloids has long been used by the food industry as a stabilizing and gelling agent. Agar Agar gels at 34°C to 42°C and melts at 80°C to 98°C. This unmatched natural hysteresis offers a great advantage, particularly with regard to the shelf life of food preparations.

Agar Agar is useful as a laxative. When hydrated it provides a smooth, non- irritant bulk in the digestive tract. This Agar can be used in the preparation of emulsions, suspensions, capsules and suppositories in surgical lubricants and as a suspending agent for Barium Sulphate Radiology.

Due to its gel strength and microbial flora absence, Agar Agar is used in the pharmaceutical industry as gelling, stabilizer and thickener agent. Stable and inert, this polysaccharide is water soluble, and it produces reversible gels useful for pharmaceutical products formulation. Agar Agar is used in the pharmaceutical industry for many applications such as elaboration of medicaments and capsules, excipient ingredient in pills, tablets and syrups and as laxatives.

This Agar Agar is extensively used in plant tissue culture. Tissue culture helps you grow uniform plants in quick succession. This Agar Agar can be used as plant culture tissues for the propagation of orchids and other ornamental plants, vegetables, fruits and other agricultural products. 

A major application of Agar Agar is in the field of biotechnology. With its many diverse uses, the demand for high-quality agar agar is expected to increase in the rapidly expanding field of biotechnology. 

Agar Agar Technical Grade is used for many purposes where clarity is not of the much importance. We offer Technical Grade Agar of different specifications based on the applications as listed below.

Applications

• Air Freshener Gels: We offer Agar Agar used in gel form in air fresheners. It acts as a gelling agent and helps to retain the smell in essential oils in the air feshener.
• Bio Fertilizers: We offer Agar Agar used in the production of bio fertilizer gels. This type of Agar Agar is permitted as a biofertilizer component in organic farming.
• Cosmetics: We offer Agar Agar used in the production of skin care products and cosmetics. In the cosmetics sector, Agar Agar is used as gelling, thickening and stablising agents in facial creams/lotions, foundations, shaving creams, tooth paste, liquid soap, body wash and others.
• Insect Feeds: We offer Agar Agar that provides crickets and other feeder insects with a safe, clean water source in a convenient gel form. This easy-to-use formula eliminates many of the problems associated with traditional watering methods, such as the formation of deadly bacteria and loss through drowning. Due to its unique characteristics, this Agar Agar has gained tremendous importance in the field of cricket farming.
• Dentistry: In dentistry, Agar Agar is used to make dental impressions. The Agar Agar type hydrocolloids are thermoplastic, elastic materials which are softened by heating, hardened by cooling and used repeatedly. In the hardened state, they are flexible and elastic and ideal for making dental molds and impressions.