When Laminaria is stressed the plant flushes large quantities of iodide as a powerful antioxidant out of its cells, which combines with highly reactive oxygen in the water and air to produce molecular iodine, which is used in hospitals as an antiseptic. The process can generate clouds of iodine near the ocean surface that can …
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West coast seaweed
Seaweed is not only tasty and abundant, it is the ultimate superfood. It is packed full of life saving properties, rich in trace minerals such as potassium, iodine and magnesium. Asians have long understood this. Seaweed is used in Chinese herbal medicine as a cure for cancer and in 1974 a Japanese medical team planted …
West coast bladderwrack seaweed is slimming
A number of anti-fat seaweed based slimming aids were sold in the 18th and 19th century. For example bladderwrack tea. Bladderwrack is the seaweed that has air bubbles on its stems, which you can pop a bit like bubblewrap. There may have been something in it; bladderwrack seaweed contain high levels of iodine, which is …
swedish seaweed as the answer to global warming
swedish seaweed has so much going for it. Not only is it the source for all kinds of ailments it might also help in the fight of global warming. Swedish seaweed absorbs greenhouse gases, trapping carbon dioxide and converts it back into oxygen. The seaweeds sargassum and sostera marina and bladderwrack grow around 40 feet …
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just another west coast kelp tiramisu
No green seaweed this time but agar, an ingredient you may have heard about before – and may even used. Agar is a thickener that works similarly to gelatin, but it is plant based; made from seaweed. Or use swedish west coast kelp that have no green colour. Once you have gotten the hang how …
Easy Swedish WestCoast Kelp Ice Cream
This may be the easiest to make ice cream on the planet and also the greenest. You can make this recipe with all kinds of fruit, but since kelp mixes well with banana, you go bananas. Colorful combination? Go with strawbwerries. Can you guess what color the ice cream will become?. 5 bananas, chopped, 50 …