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Agar (agar-agar) can be used as a laxative, an appetite suppressant, a vegetarian substitute for gelatin, a thickener for soups, in fruit preserves, ice cream, and other desserts, as a clarifying agent in brewing, and for sizing paper and fabrics.gar was discovered around 1658 in Japan (where it is called kanten, coined from the phrase kan-zarashi tokoroten or âcold-exposed agarâ) by Mino TarÅzaemon, an innkeeper who was said to have discarded some surplus seaweed soup and noticed that it gelled later after a winter night's freezing.