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 cancerous tumours in mice, then fed them a diet of seaweed. Remarkably, the tumours disappeared. The Japanese also report that wakame, our sugarkelp, suppresses the re-absorption of cholesterol in the liver and intestine. No seaweeds are poisonous. Following seaweeds are here on the west coast. dulse-dillisk=palmaria palmate, carrageen- irish moss=chrondrus crispus, sea lettuce=ulva lectuca, laver-sloke-nori= porphyra umbilicalis, kelp-oarweed-tangle-kombu=laminaria digitate, sugarwrack-sugarkelp=laminaria saccharina, dabberlocks-wakame=alaria esculenta, pepper dulse=laurencia pinnatifida, bladderwrack-fucus=fucus vesiculosus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … <\/p>\n