摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an agar capable of realizing low jelly strength without cleaving molecules and having both of excellent viscosity and water-holding capacity, and provide a method for producing the agar. SOLUTION: A raw material sea weed having 1-10% sulfuric acid radical is subjected to extraction treatment with a neutral hot water in order to extract an agar component in the sea weed without carrying out alkali treatment or after carrying out alkali treatment according to sulfuric acid radical content to provide the objective agar having <=600 g/cm<2> jelly strength in gel in 1.5% agar concentration and >=15 cp viscosity at 85 deg.C in sol in 1.5% agar concentration. |