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Its unique nutritional benefits and medicinal properties have helped seaweed soar in popularity in recent decades, causing the global commercial seaweed market to reach more than 17 billion last ...
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 .
Seaweed is a good source of vitamin K, an essential vitamin, which is an important factor in blood-clotting. Eating miyeok-guk that contains a cup of seaweed enables one to absorb around 22% of the recommended daily vitamin K requirement for women and 29% of the recommended daily vitamin K requirement for men. [citation needed]
Gim (Korean: κΉ€), also romanized as kim, [1] is a generic term for a group of edible seaweeds dried to be used as an ingredient in Korean cuisine, consisting of various species in the genera Pyropia and Porphyra, including P. tenera, P. yezoensis, P. suborbiculata, P. pseudolinearis, P. dentata, and P. seriata.
The same protective benefits that are of value to the seaweed plant have also found to be of potential benefit for both human and animal health. Fucoidan extracts are utilised in a range of therapeutic health care preparations, being incorporated as high value ingredients in nutritional, medical device, skincare and dermatological products.
Gamet is a traditional dried edible seaweed from Ilocos Norte and Cagayan of the Philippines, particularly from the town of Burgos. Gamet are dried into sheets or thin cakes called pedazo (from Spanish for "piece"), which are characteristically purplish-black in color. It is used widely in soups, salads, omelets and other dishes, in the ...
Among one of the most nutrient-rich sea vegetables popular in these regions is kelp, a type of seaweed. “Eat more vegetables” is healthy eating 101; you don’t have to know all that much ...
Seaweed might be the greatest untapped resource we have on this planet, writes Vincent Doumeizel. Opinion: Seaweed is nutritious, not slimy. Eating it could save the world.