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Eden Agar Agar Flakes (Sea Vegetable) 28g
$17.99
A traditional odorless, tasteless seaweed gelatin substitute. Easy to use flakes ideal for pie fillings, jellies, preserves, kanten, custards, and vegetable or fruit aspics. Wild, hand harvested sea vegetables with strong thickening properties are naturally prepared and dried in the mountains using only winter freezes and thaws.
Description
Benefits & Features
- Non-GMO
- Fat-free
- Gluten-free
- Low sodium
Eden Agar Agar Flakes are a traditional 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 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 Agar Agar Flakes are hand harvested from pristine temperate waters in the autumn then spread out on beaches to naturally sun dry. In the winter the dried plants are transported to the mountains where they are cooked several hours in water to soften them. 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 of the 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 10 days. After 10 days all of the moisture disappears resulting in lightweight, off-white bars of agar. The bars are then crushed to produce Eden Agar Agar Flakes. The flakes are easy to use, do not require long soaking and quickly dissolve in hot water or juice.
Unlike commercially produced agar agar flakes, Eden Agar Agar Flakes are naturally made without the use of sulfuric acid as a softening agent or inorganic bleaches and dyes used to whiten the sea vegetables and rid them of their odor. Simple boiling and air drying Eden Agar Agar Flakes makes it a superior quality, pure vegetable gelatin, containing no animal products or chemicals. Eden Agar Agar Flakes are very low sodium, low calorie, fat and cholesterol free.
When using Eden Agar Agar Flakes to make a firm gelatin for fruit salads or childrens finger gelatin, use 1 and 1/2 tablespoons of agar agar flakes per cup of water, tea or juice. If a softer jello like texture is desired, use 1 tablespoon of flakes per cup of water, tea or juice. If the juice is quite acidic such as grape, orange or lemon, slightly more flakes will be needed to achieve a jello like texture.
Package Size: 1 oz, 28.4 g
Ingredients
Seaweed - (Gelidium amansii, Gracilaria verrucosa).
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size: 1 tbsp (1.5 g) | |
| Calories | 0 |
| Fat | 0 g |
| Saturated | 0 g |
| + Trans | 0 g |
| Carbohydrate | 1 g |
| Fibre | 1 g |
| Sugars | 0 g |
| Protein | 0 g |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Sodium | 0 mg |
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