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 ...

If you're into vegan fish alternatives with seaweed, you may well think you're getting a healthy amount of iodine, as you normally would by eating fish. After all, seaweed is one of the best food ...

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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 ...

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

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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 ...

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

Atlantic Sea Farms, a seaweed farming company in Biddeford, doubled its harvest from last year and has more “partner farmers” and retail outlets than ever. This year, the farmers harvested 1.3 million ...

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Seaweed and ceviche poke bowls. Kelp burgers. Sugar kelp vodka cocktails. Seaweed-infused beers and teas. Seaweed-inspired bread, cheese, chocolate and ice cream. Those are some of the products ...