SHEET /m/agar · MoleculeFinder curated (no single PubChem compound) · REV 2026.07
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Agar
from sourcepolysaccharide · food flavor
What is Agar?
The seaweed gel that lets a Petri dish hold bacteria, and a vegetarian setting agent that sets firmer and at a higher temperature than gelatin. from source
CategoryFood & flavor
No single structure
Agar is a polysaccharide: a large chain of sugar units. It has no single 2D or 3D structure, molecular weight or SMILES, so MoleculeFinder models it by hand.
ClassPolysaccharideinferred
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