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Alaria esculenta is an edible seaweed, also known as dabberlocks or badderlocks, or winged kelp, and occasionally as Atlantic Wakame. It is a traditional food along the coasts of the far north Atlantic Ocean. It may be eaten fresh or cooked in Greenland, Iceland, Scotland and Ireland.
Alaria is a genus of brown alga (Phaeophyceae) comprising approximately 17 species. Members of the genus are dried and eaten as a food in Western Europe , China , Korea , Japan (called sarumen ), and South America . [ 1 ]
Dabberlocks or badderlocks (Alaria esculenta) is eaten either fresh or cooked in Greenland, Iceland, Scotland and Ireland. [citation needed] Aphanizomenon flos-aquae is a cyanobacteria similar to spirulina, which is used as a nutritional supplement. Extracts and oils from algae are also used as additives in various food products. [21]
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A large number of Phaeophyceae are intertidal or upper littoral, [26] and they are predominantly cool and cold water organisms that benefit from nutrients in up welling cold water currents and inflows from land; Sargassum being a prominent exception to this generalisation. Brown algae growing in brackish waters are almost solely asexual. [26]
Kelp polysaccharides are used in skin care as gelling ingredients and because of the benefits provided by fucoidan. [citation needed] Kombu (昆布 in Japanese, and 海带 in Chinese, Saccharina japonica and others), several Pacific species of kelp, is a very important ingredient in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cuisines.
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Algae can be converted into various types of fuels, depending on the production technologies and the part of the cells used. The lipid, or oily part of the algae biomass can be extracted and converted into biodiesel through a process similar to that used for any other vegetable oil, or converted in a refinery into "drop-in" replacements for petroleum-based fuels.