Whats the difference between Powdered Gelatin & Agar Agar Gulaman?
AGAR-AGAR OR GULAMAN The big difference is that agar agar is vegetarian. I prefer using it. It comes in clear sheets or as flakes and disolves easily and to me makes a nicer texture. A traditional odorless, tasteless,100% vegetable quality gelatin created by sea vegetables. A healthy alternative to commercial animal or chemical derived gelatins. It is used to thicken vegetable or fruit aspics, custards and pie fillings. Agar agar is high fiber, low carb and contain no sodium or fat. Agar or agar agar is a gelatinous substance derived from seaweed. Historically and in a modern context, it is chiefly used as an ingredient in desserts throughout Japan, but in the past century has found extensive use as a solid substrate to contain culture medium for microbiological work. The gelling agent is an unbranched polysaccharide obtained from the cell membranes of some species of red algae, primarily from the genuses Gelidium and Gracilaria, or seaweed (Sphaerococcus euchema). Commercially it is d
