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Sally McKenna Food Writer,
Author Extreme Greens
Farmed Irish Seaweed: An Ocean Wonder Food?
Vitamins
Wonder Food?
Minerals Probiotic
Antioxidants
Wholefood
Healthy
Energy Boosting
Low Calorie Fibre Bio-Available
Functional
Ecotone
“A transitional area between two ecological
communities.”
The shoreline is an ancient world, the place
of our ancestoral beginnings, never
resting, never the same twice.
Why is seaweed so healthy?
Shore Profile
Each variety of seaweed has its own habitat. Photosynthesis: Carbon dioxide + light + water = oxygen and sugar
∗ Chlorophyll is the green in seaweed that contains light-absorbing pigments. Other pigments can be red, blue, brown or golden.
Chlorophyll
The chlorophyll molecule has a ring structure similar to the heme molecule in blood.
Seaweed behaves like blood…
∗ Seaweed finds all it needs in seawater. ∗ Our blood mimics the mineral composition of ocean
water. ∗ Human lymph and seawater share the same chemical
compound. ∗ Blood is “our own private ocean”. ∗ In Japan, wounded soldiers were given juice of
seaweed when they didn’t have enough blood to keep them alive until blood would arrive.
Sea Water
∗ Salt is essential to life. ∗ When captured in the wild, salt fuses together over
70 trace elements and minerals. ∗ It is only through the “big bang’’ of a dying star as it
explodes into a supernova that enough heat is generated to create an element.
Star Dust
∗ People around the globe live in a chronic state of mineral deficiency.
∗ Some of the scores of minerals in seaweed include selenium; zinc; calcium; magnesium; potassium and iodine.
∗ Iodine was given to soldiers to keep them healthy and has a role to play in the prevention of breast cancer.
Sea Minerals
∗ Seaweed helps you lose weight by inhibiting the action of an enzyme that controls the digestion of fat.
∗ Seaweed controls levels of blood sugar and this decreases food cravings.
Bladderwrack
Seaweed and Skin
Moisturising
Soothing Energising Anti-microbial
Immune boosting
Anti-Fungal
Anti-bacterial Makes your hair shine
Protecting
∗ Seaweed is Probiotic. ∗ Seaweed is Prebiotic. ∗ Seaweed contains both soluble and insoluble dietary
fiber. ∗ Alginic acid has a detoxing effect (which is why
seaweed is prescribed post-chemotherapy).
Seaweed and Digestion
∗ Seaweed has more anti-oxidants than raspberries. ∗ Seaweed has twice as much Vitamin C as orange juice. ∗ Seaweed has ten times as much Calcium as cow’s milk. ∗ Seaweed has fifty times as much Iron as spinach.
∗ There are ninety-seven bio-available nutrients in seaweed,
more than any other plant, and scientists recommend you eat it regularly, eating from all three groups.
The Stats
∗ Seaweed is a natural functional food, adding nutritional fiber and probiotics.
∗ Alginates allow bakers to increase hydration.
∗ Seaweed is anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic and contains natural antibiotics.
Functional Food & Medicine
∗ In 1908 Kikunae Ikeda discovered and named Umami. ∗ Umami has a synergistic effect on other foods, and
makes other food taste better and have a better texture.
∗ In 2000 taste receptors discovered to detect Umami. ∗ Why do we need to Taste? ∗ We are genetically hard-wired to enjoy seaweed!
Taste
∗ Our grandmother’s could recognise and identify seaweed, can we?
∗ Prátaí; Páiste; Fermainn – potatoes, children, seaweed.
∗ Seaweed is our birthright and should play a role in our economic future.
The next challenge?
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