Understanding Carbohydrates. How much and what type of carbohydrate foods are important for managing diabetes. The balance between how much insulin is in your body and the carbohydrate you eat makes a difference in your blood glucose levels.Learn more about how much and what foods to include in your meal plan.he balance between how much insulin is in your body and the carbohydrate you eat makes a difference in your blood glucose levels. Learn more about how much and what foods to include in your meal plan.
Agar (or Agar Agar), sometimes referred to as kanten, is a gelling agent coming from a South East Asian seaweed. It is used for scientific purposes (in biology for instance), as a filler in paper sizing fabric and as a clarifying agent in brewing.
Gelidium is the preferred source for agars. Impurities, debris, minerals and pigment are reduced to specified levels during manufacture. Agar is a gel at room temperature, remaining firm at temperature as high as 65Â°C. Agar melts at approximately 85Â°C, a different temperature from that at which it solidifies, 32-40Â°C. This property is known as hysteresis. Agar is generally resistant to shear forces; however, different agars may have different gel strengths or degrees of stiffness.