Agar with its unique properties has a wide range of applications. For centuries it has been used as a high performance stabilising, thickening and gelting agent. Its ability to produce clear, colourless, odourless and natural gells has been of great utility in the manufacturing of confectionery, glazing, icing coatings, piping jellies and many other innovative products. Agar can also be used in the production of various beverage and food, for example, jelly, ice-cream, bread, cake, soft candy and can as coagulator, thickening agent, emulsifier, anti-staling agent and stabilizer.

Beverage & Food Industry
▼Confectionery
Agar is expecially developed to be used in all different confectionery, fruit jellies,jam ,icing coatings, salad dressings and glazing applications.

▼Fruit Juice & Soft Candy:
The transparency and taste of soft candy will become better that others as long as the formula is added by 0.8-1.5% of agar-agar.

▼Dairy products
Agar is considered as a cost effective stabiliser for dairy products where water retention is of importance. It can also be mixed with other colloids to improve their final texture.

▼Bread & Cake:
Owing to its water-holding function, adding proper agar can prolong storage time of bread and cake and improve the color and their taste.

▼Meat can & ham:
Adding 2% of agar can form gel that can adhere effectively to scrap meat.

▼The clarifier of Beer:
As auxilliary clarifier, agar can accelerate the speed of clarifying and improve the effect of clarity.

Becteriological
▼Biotechnology
The major application of agar is in the field of plant tissue culture. The growing interest in tissue culture as a standard method for the propagation of ornamental plants, vegetables, fruits and other agricultural products has increased the demand for agar as a culture media.

▼Microbiology
Agar as a culture media is widely used for practically all pathogenic and non- pathogenic bacteria and fungi because it is not easy to metabolise and has a good gel firmness, elasticity, clarity, stability. Because of its vegetal origin agar constitutes a natural non-toxic matrix for the formation of culture media in Microbiology.

▼Dentistry
In prosthetic dentistry agar is used in the preparation of dental casts.

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

Cosmetic
▼Agar is especially developed to be used as jelly agents and thickners in shampoo and cosmetic applications.

Other field
▼Agarose is developed to be used in electrophoresis applications.