{"id":24838,"date":"2025-05-23T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=24838"},"modified":"2025-05-07T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T17:50:09","slug":"what-is-nigari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/23\/what-is-nigari\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Nigari?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24839\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nigari-Flakes-from-Mitoku-Co-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24839\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nigari-Flakes-from-Mitoku-Co-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nigari-Flakes-from-Mitoku-Co-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Nigari-Flakes-from-Mitoku-Co-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigari Flakes from Mitoku Co.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nigari has been added to The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s Food Ingredient Guide. Here\u2019s this new entry:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nigari<\/strong><br \/>\nAlternate Names: nigai, bittern, magnesium chloride<br \/>\nCommercial Source: Mineral<br \/>\nUsed in: tofu, non-cultured dairy cheese, mineral water<br \/>\nUsed as: coagulant, flavoring agent, mineral supplement<br \/>\nDefinition: Translated from the Japanese word for bittern, nigari, used to make tofu, is composed of magnesium chloride and several trace minerals.<br \/>\nManufacturers:<br \/>\nSandra Gibson of Sea Salts of Hawaii: \u201cNo, it is only deep ocean magnesium solar evaporated, not other ingredients.\u201d<br \/>\nNewfoundland Salt Company: \u201cNo.\u201d<br \/>\nEma Sogabe of Mitoku Co.: \u201cOur Nigari does not contain any animal\/animal derived ingredients\/processing aids. As a matter of fact, we would like to confirm that there are no animal derived ingredients\/processing aids at the processing site at all.\u201d<br \/>\nAdditional Information:<br \/>\nKameyumado<br \/>\nClassification: Vegan<br \/>\nEntry Added: May 2025<\/p>\n<p>More ingredient listings are at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/ingredients\/index.php#n\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/ingredients\/index.php#n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can support The Vegetarian Resource Group research by joining at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The contents of this posting, our website and our other publications, including Vegan Journal, are not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. We often depend on product and ingredient information from company statements. It is impossible to be 100% sure about a statement, info can change, people have different views, and mistakes can be made. Please use your best judgment about whether a product is suitable for you. To be sure, do further research or confirmation on your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigari has been added to The Vegetarian Resource Group\u2019s Food Ingredient Guide. Here\u2019s this new entry: Nigari Alternate Names: nigai, bittern, magnesium chloride Commercial Source: Mineral Used in: tofu, non-cultured dairy cheese, mineral water Used as: coagulant, flavoring agent, mineral supplement Definition: Translated from the Japanese word for bittern, nigari, used to make tofu, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24840,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24838\/revisions\/24840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}