Seaweeds are found throughout the world’s oceans and seas and none is known to be poisonous. Many are good to eat and are considered a great delicacy in many Asian countries. Seaweeds are used in many maritime regions for industrial applications and as a fertiliser. The major direct use of these plants as food is in Japan, China and Korea, and in the Indian Ocean where seaweed cultivation has become a major coastal industry. The main food species grown by aquaculture in these countries are Nori or Zicai (Porphyra, a red alga), Kombu, Kunbu or Haidai (Laminaria or Saccharina: brown algae) and Wakame (Undaria, also a brown alga).
Industrial utilisation of seaweed is mostly centred on the extraction of phycocolloids (marine hydrocolloids), and, to a much lesser extent, 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 most likely have eaten some sort of seaweed extract in the last 24 hours as many processed foods such as yoghurt, health drinks, chocolate milk, 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.
QuotaBillsI hid myself in food. - Gordon Ramsay
Tacos are the food of genius. - Heather Brewer
The most dangerous food is wedding cake. - James Thurber
The best food is whatever fills the belly. - Arab Proverb
What poison is to food, self-pity is to life. - Oliver C. Wilson
Don't pick at your food. It won't heal. - Hawkeye Pierce
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. - George Bernard Shaw
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying - dead. - Oscar Wilde
Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world. - Peter York
I wouldn't eat a hamburger for 40,000 dollars. - River Phoenix
Food is our common ground, a universal experience. - James Beard
Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is. - Irish Proverb
Bacon bits are like fairy dust of the food community. - Unknown
The food in Yugoslavia is fine if you like pork tartare. - Ed Begley Jr.
I just love Chinese food. My favorite dish is number 27. - Clement Attlee
We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else. - Ray Kroc
I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing. - Taylor Swift
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. - Jonathan S Foer
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. - Maya Angelou
You turn hotdogs with tongs. Don't you ever use those tongs on a hamburger. - J.B. Smoove
Now that food has replaced sex in my life, I can't even get into my own pants. - Unknown
Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. - WC Fields
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love, or exercise. - Hans Selye
If more of us cared about food and home above gold, this world would be a merrier place. - Bilbo Baggins
Thank you, horseradish, for being neither a radish nor a horse. What you are is a liar food. - Jimmy Fallon
I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D's, Subway and Domino's. - Amy Childs
I'm glad I don't have to hunt for my food. I don't even know where Sandwiches live. - Bill Murray
The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose. - Garrison Keillor
If fat people just gave skinny people more food, we could solve obesity and hunger at the same time. - Ashton Kutcher
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. - Mark Twain
Food: The response Mom usually gives in answer to the question, "What's for dinner tonight?" - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Going without food or water will kill the body, but the lack of relationship will kill the minds and spirit. - David Jeremiah
Malenutrition: The practice of depriving a man from food for more than a couple of hours - or during a football game - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature. - Danny Meyer
I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food. - Queen Latifah
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet. - George Foreman
I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion, and a lot of laughter. That's really what fills my tank. - Anna Eshoo
Mushroom: 1. A motel for quickies; 2. The place where they store the school food; 3. A room that has no sides, no walls, no doors and no ceilings. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell
The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it. - Edward I Kock