General Information Of Seaweeds.

Do you know any seaweeds?

Seaweed is the common name of several species of algae and sea-plants, these are found in almost every sea, they look, taste and feed slightly different in each country or continent. There are more than 9,000 species of seaweeds.
These are very commonly used seaweeds, and are easily available in the super markets: brown seaweed, red seaweed, and green seaweed. Which are found by name, like Laminria or kelp, kombu, wakame, nori-sheet, sea spaghetti, egg wrack, sea lettuce, sea grass, Irish moss, carrageenan, and kaiso (mixed-seaweed).

Uses of Seaweed

Industrial utilisation of seaweed is mostly centred on the extraction of phycocolloids (marine hydrocolloids), and, to a much lesser extent, certain fine biochemicals. Fermentation and pyrolysis and the use of seaweed as biofuels are not an option on an industrial scale at present, but are possible options for the future, particularly as conventional fossil fuels run out. Seaweeds are being used in cosmetics, and as organic fertilisers. They have the potential to be much more widely used as a source of long- and short-chained biochemicals with medicinal and industrial uses. Marine algae may also be used as energy-collectors and potentially useful substances may be extracted by fermentation and pyrolysis. Seaweed extracts appear in the oddest of places; you almost certainly have eaten some sort of seaweed extract in the last 24 hours as many processed foods such as chocolate milk, yoghurts, health drinks, and even the highest-quality German beers contain seaweed polysaccharides such as agars, carrageenans and alginates!Seaweed baths have been popular in Ireland and Britain since Edwardian times, and seaweed wraps and treatments have become more poular in the last few years in the agro nutrition area.