7 Reasons to Eat Seaweeds

Adding seaweeds to your diet gives taste and texture to your foods and benefits your health. They have been described as the most nutritious form of vegetation on the planet.

• Highly versatile for culinary use. Easy to eat and cook with and low in calories

• Adds texture and fibre to your diet and draws flavours from other foods Improves flavour profile by giving a more rounded or complete flavour sensation to your food

• Use as a seasoning and salt replacement

• Umami translated from Japanese means delicious or pleasant savoury taste. The 5th of the five basic tastes alongside sweet,sour,bitter and salty. Found in foods such as strong cheese, shellfish,tomatoes and soy .Seaweeds are high in umami.

• 10 to 20 times the mineral content of other plants. No other group of plant contains more minerals and nutrients than seaweed. Seaweeds contain all 56 minerals and trace elements required for your body.

• Weight control:
Brown seaweeds contain Alginate that reduces fat digestion by the body Iodine in seaweeds helps maintain a healthy metabolism Seaweeds rehydrate the stomach making you feel full and less likely to snack • Detoxification boost helps skin cells rid themselves of toxins that prevent cells working as they should.

I love the stuff. I buy powdered spirulina and put it in my smoothies. Gives it a green version of a sweet tart flavor.

I once bought those dried sheets, but they are expensive af and they disappear before feeling satisfied.