1 sodium alginate	Food Industry	Used as agglomerating agent, thickening agent and suspending agent for healthy food such as Ice cream, drinks, profiling food, meat product, and jam and so on.
	Medical Industry	Adhesive, bioadhesive, controlling retard tablets, medical dressing, tooth model materials and curing agents etc..
	Feed Industry	Feed binder, pet food binder, etc..
	Daily chemicals	Facial masks, gelatinizer and stabilizer for cosmetics, etc.
	Industry and others	Used as thickening agent, adhesive and curing agents for printing paste, water treatment, agriculture, welding electrode, papermaking, ceramics, etc.

2 Carrag- heenan	Food Industry	Agglomerating agent, thickening agent, stabilizer, suspending agent and clarifying agent, etc.
	Daily chemicals	Tooth paste, detergent, cosmetics and sir fresher, etc.
	Medical Industry	Drug suspension, barium sulphate dispersant and capsules, etc.
	Biochemistry	Microbe carrier and immobilized cell carrier, etc.
	Other industries	Water-based paint of coating industry, ceramic glaze, thicker of watercolor, graphite suspension, textiles, paper slurry, herbicide for agriculture and suspension agent of pesticide, etc.

3 Agar	Food Industry	Gel and stabilizer for candy, jelly, agar thick soup, canned food, ham and intestine, etc.; thicker and stabilizer for jam, peanut butter and sesame paste, etc.; stabilizer for frozen food such as ice cream and sorbet, etc.; staged suspension agent for all kinds of fruit juice and drinks; clarifying agent for alcohol, soy sauce and vinegar, etc..
	Medical Industry	Used for lowering blood fat, regulating intestine, detoxicating and cosmetology, etc..
	Biotechnology	Bacteria culturing medium and microbe carrier, etc.

4 Mannitol	For medicine	Transfusion, filler and excipient for tablets, relaxation agent and diuretic, etc.
	For food	Sweetening agent used in sugar-free food, health food and gums, etc.
	For chemical industry	Polyester synthesis, electrolyte and daily chemicals, etc.

5 Alginic acid	For food	Flour improver, thickening stabilizer, gels, thicker and health food, etc.
	For medicine	Digestant, tablet filler and sustained-release agent, etc.

6 Iodine	For medicine	Germicide and disinfectant or used for synthetic potassium iodide, sodium iodide and X-ray contrast medium, etc.
	For food	Synthetic sodium iodide, potassium iodide and iodine supplement, etc.