Is agar one and the same as agar-agar?



Answer:
Yes, agar and agar-agar are the same piece. The word agar-agar is a Malay word and it means jelly. It is a innate gum derived from certain species of seaweed stale the coast of India and Sri Lanka. The island of Sri Lanka used to be called Ceylon and you may also hear agar referred to as Ceylon agar.

This seaweed is harvest by members of the fishing community within India, particularly the women. When the finished product reach you, it is packaged strips of wash and dried seaweed and sometimes in powdered form. Raw agar is white and semi-translucent.

As a lacto-vegetarian you would boil it in dampen at a concentration of about 0.7-1% w/v (e.g. a 7 gram packet of powder into 1 litre of marine would be 0.7%) until it dissolves, after which sweeteners, flavouring, colouring, and pieces of fruit may be added. After it cools, it will gel up like jelly. This is how vegans cause jelly and other vegan desserts.
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Agar-Agar is a jelly like substance that comes from ocean weeds, it is used within cooking.



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