It may be one of the more unlikely food crazes of recent times, but agar-agar (the flavorless, seaweed-based thickener used in soups and jellies) is hipat least in Japan, where .
Working on Navy orders the chemists discovered: 1) pectin paste and tannic acid is a natural for battle burns; 2) pectin is a good stand-in for Jap-controlled agar-agar, intestinal .
It may be one of the more unlikely food crazes of recent times, but agar-agar (the flavorless, seaweed-based thickener used in soups and jellies) is hip at least in Japan .