Baking Ingredients

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Product Description

Eden Foods Agar Agar flakes are a non-GMO, odorless, tasteless sea vegetable gelatin created by a long, slow process that combines a mixture of red algae sea vegetables of the Gelidium and Gracilaria species. Eden Foods Agar Agar is highly prized as a natural, pure vegetable quality gelatin and a much healthier alternative to commercial animal, chemical gelatins. 

The eight varieties of wild sea vegetables used in Eden Foods Agar Agar Flakes are hand harvested from the Northern Pacific Ocean in the autumn, then spread out on beaches to sun dry. In the winter the dried plants are taken to the mountains where they're cooked for several hours. This thick mixture is poured into trays and allowed to gel before cutting into bars. The bars are placed outside in snow covered rice fields on bamboo mats suspended from short bamboo frames. During the cold night the gelled bars freeze solid and ice forms on the surface. In the morning when the temperature rises, the ice melts and runs off. The bars are left to repeatedly freeze and thaw for ten days. After ten days all the moisture is gone, resulting in lightweight, off-white bars of agar. The bars are then crushed to produce Eden Foods Agar Agar Flakes. The flakes are easy to use, do not require long soaking and quickly dissolve in hot water or juice.