Agar is

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Agar is a food made by freezing or dehydrating the seaweed, a marine organism.

When the Korean War broke out in June 1950, it is said that people carried it with them when they were moving to escape the war and ate it when they were hungry, but when they excreted it, they washed it clean and ate it again.

This agar has almost no nutrients, so it is said that when you eat it, you feel full but have no energy.

Similar to this agar, there are also Cheongpo jelly, acorn jelly, and tofu, which are similarly boiled and hardened, but they are different foods.

It also has similar properties to gelatin, but it is a translucent, colorless, type of protein that is broken down by hydrolytic enzymes (proteases), and it is said to be extracted from collagen collected from animal body parts.

Similar to agar, it has almost no taste and is mainly added to foods that give a chewy texture, such as jelly.

Usage

Recently, this agar has been known as a diet food, and among them, konjac uses agar, and in the case of Yeon Yanggaeng, the main ingredient is agar.

Although it is such a trivial and unappealing seaweed, it can be said that it has important nutrients in the human diet.

There are many kinds of seaweed that grow in the ocean, including coral, but among them, kelp and tangle are brown algae, laver and seaweed are green algae, and this agar and laver are red algae.

Chlorella, which was once considered a future food resource and even went into space, is also a green algae.

Agar in Korea

Agar is a substance made by boiling and cooling agar and other ingredients, and has properties similar to gelatin. In Korea, it is recently produced in large quantities in Miryang, Gyeongnam, and if you slice it into thin threads and eat it floating in soybean soup in the summer, it is also great as a refreshing drink.

One of the important functions is that this agar is not digested, so it prevents constipation by increasing the capacity of the large intestine, and it also helps bowel movements with its thick properties.

The agar, which is the cause of this umu, has a strong coagulant power compared to muk, and does not rot easily, and has strong hydrophilicity, so it can maintain moisture in a certain form, so it is used as an ingredient in jellies such as yanggaeng, confectionery such as jam, and ice cream, and because it is not easily decomposed by bacteria and has strong coagulant power, it is also used for bacterial culture.

The material applied to the petri dishes used for bacterial culture in pharmaceuticals, dry food, or food companies is this agar medium.

As such, agar is colorless and odorless, so it is a harmless substance, and if you put 100 in, you get 100.

The saying “a person with an empty mind” in oriental classics means accepting people with an empty mind, so it means treating people without prejudice.

Also, since it depends on the organizational culture how new employees or new students are accepted and developed/grown, just like a blank sheet of paper, it is like a process of gradual differentiation.