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Beyond food production, seaweed offers a host of other environmental benefits. It has been used to create alternatives to plastic packaging that are biodegradable and compostable, and even edible .
A food and medicine source that the U.S. National Ocean Service notes was used for millennia by ancient Roman and Egyptian civilizations, seaweed is now frequently touted and recommended by ...
Seaweed contains high levels of iodine, tyrosine relative to other foods. [17] It is also rich in calcium and magnesium. [18] Seaweed is a possible vegan source of Vitamin B12. [19] The vitamin is obtained from symbiotic bacteria. [20]
Saccharina japonica is a marine species of the Phaeophyceae (brown algae) class, a type of kelp or seaweed, which is extensively cultivated on ropes between the seas of China, Japan and Korea. [1] It has the common name sweet kelp. [2] It is widely eaten in East Asia. [3]
Hawaiians cultivated several varieties of seaweed for food as well as to feed fish farmed within fish ponds. As many as 75 types of limu were used for food, more than the 35 used in Japanese cuisine, which is also well known for its use of seaweed. [5] In modern times, limu is often used as a condiment, typically in raw fish dishes such as poke ...
Seaweed has long been popular in Asia, which is responsible for 98% of the annual 35 million metric tons of it sold worldwide, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. However, a ...
Seaweed species such as kelps provide essential nursery habitat for fisheries and other marine species and thus protect food sources; other species, such as planktonic algae, play a vital role in capturing carbon and producing at least 50% of Earth's oxygen. [3] Natural seaweed ecosystems are sometimes under threat from human activity.
Fucoidan is a long chain sulfated polysaccharide found in various species of brown algae.Commercially available fucoidan is commonly extracted from the seaweed species Fucus vesiculosus (), Cladosiphon okamuranus, Laminaria japonica (kombu, sugar kelp) and Undaria pinnatifida ().