Hiding on fine white sand beaches where drifting seaweed have been dumped ashore by waves, small creatures like beach hoppers and isopods can be found. These creatures commonly found throughout the world, feed off the rotting seaweed as well as using them as cover during periods of the day when the sun turns sand into hot lava. These long Atlantic seaweeds like those we found on the picture above were however not what is used to produce the biological juice, agar. These are Bull Kelps - the fastest growing plants on the planet - shooting up to 200 feet over a summer. Kelps perhaps surprisingly exceed the amount of micronutrient values of soil-based plants and our bodies can rapidly absorb these minerals. Strangely, for Kelps are great whether you need to gain or loose weight as it has a normalizing effect on thyroid gland. To get agar you will need another type of seaweed, red algae mainly harvested from California or eastern Asia.