It’s low tide around North Uist, a remote island off the West Coast of Scotland. Dark tendrils of seaweed lie glistening on the rocky shore, and a lone figure in orange waders moves methodically ...

If you're looking for a guide to edible seaweed, a pretty accessible place to start is with nori. This salty, delicious sea ...

Popular in Japanese cuisine, seaweed is loaded with health benefits. Read below to learn in detail. Edible seaweed, also called algae, are ocean-grown plants that bring loads of flavour to your plate.

Unless gathered absolutely fresh, seaweed tends to be sold dried. It is available fresh from May to June. Carrageen, or Irish moss, is used as a vegetarian gelling agent in some processed foods.

"They are holding up a horizontal line," explains Mr Gregarsen, the managing director of Ocean Rainforest, a seaweed producer. "At every metre another line hangs down, and that's where the seaweed ...

One of my undergraduate students, Brittney McKenzie, saw a possible solution. There is a sargassum seaweed crisis in Barbados. One tourist resort was spending US$2 million every year to remove it ...

Evoware co-founder David Christian said the idea of seaweed-based edible packaging was spurred by his desire to fight an explosion in plastic waste over the last few years in his home city of ...

Ocean Greens (The Experiment, 2016) by Lisette Kreischer and Marcel Schuttelaar shows food-enthusiasts how they can deliciously incorporate seaweed into their daily diet. Kreischer and Schuttelaar ...

Loliware's sustainability adviser, Daniela Saltzman, said their straw "looks, feels, and acts like plastic," while Briganti said it has a "neutral" taste that's not salty like traditional seaweed.

Take this dish of snap peas with cuttlefish and wakame (seaweed). The peas, also known as sugar (and sugar snap) peas and as teardrop peas, which are as popular in Shanghai as in Spain ...

Wakame salad has a slightly oceanic flavor, but it's not overpowering. It has a smooth texture and is available both frozen ...

The London startup Notpla has created a plastic alternative from seaweed that's biodegradable — and even edible. And it's hoping it could put a dent in the 300 million tons of plastic waste ...