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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
According to a clip from the Late Show, the bag is made of seaweed somehow.
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Seaweed has a gelatinous component that can be extracted, alternately called "carrageenan" or "agar" depending on the species of seaweed. Both substances are used as a thickener in tons of processed foods, and both are difficult to digest. You can also extract them to a certain degree from okra and a few other veggies classified as "mucilaginous." Agar is also commonly used as the substrate that feeds bacteria in petri dishes, thus transforming it into an "agar plate" (a "petri dish" refers to just the plastic circle by itself and can't technically grow anything.)