When food forecasters made their predictions for 2022, they told The New York Times that farmed kelp would move beyond dashi and the menus at high-end restaurants and into everyday foods like pasta ...

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Oceans, rivers and lakes are chockful of thousands of underwater plants and algae collectively described as seaweed. Demand for seaweed — kelp, specifically — has exploded as scientists have confirmed ...

Kelp species such as Saccharina japonica and Undaria pinnatifida serve as critical global economic resources. However, global ...

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One business wants to use kelp to replace the plastic film on detergent pods. Another is creating an alternative to plastic twine.

A new partnership between a small business funding and research arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Springtide Seaweed will help to address the challenges of broadening seaweed cultivation ...

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Kelp species such as Saccharina japonica and Undaria pinnatifida serve as critical global economic resources. However, global ...