Importance Of Seaweed In A Healthy Diet.

Seaweed lives in the sea, they grab nutrients from the water that are passing by, they grow to be large, so harvesting is not a problem. Macroalgae are an interesting source for a myriad of different bioactive polysaccharides ranging from industrial applications to novel food applications. They possess many different interesting and often-exotic polysaccharides that are currently explored for their functional properties in food and biomedicine. No diet is complete without adding a few gram of dried seaweed to it. Using fresh seaweed might even be better but do to cost of stransport and short shelf life less practical. Well-dried seaweed can be stored in a jar in a cupboard out of direct sunlight for years.