Agar-agar is a vegetable substitute for gelatin, which is a powder or plates from a mixture of agaropectin and agarose polysaccharides. Agar-agar is obtained by extracting an extract from brown and red algae growing in the Pacific Ocean, the White and the Black Sea. Agar-agar is rich in minerals such as magnesium, iron, calcium, iodine. Agar-agar consists of pentose, agropectin, galactose, agarose, anhydrogalactose, pyruvic, and glucuronic acid.