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Seaweed is packed with vitamins, minerals powerful anti-cancer
and anti-viral compounds.Here an Asian sandwhich of vegetables
and rice wrapped in seaweed makes a damned healthy lunch.
Seaweed. The name doesn't quite inspire, but according to a recent finding, seaweed is one of the healthiest foods around.
How about this, let's rebrand seaweed as "sea vegetables." There, much better.
A finding by researchers published in the Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Chemistry (yes, it really exists) found seaweeed, er sea vegetables to be a veritable cornucopia of mega health, chock full of minerals, packed with iodine and fiber and polysaccharides which have anti-cancer and anti-viral properties.
And now we come to find out it's a good source of DHA or omega-3 fatty acids too. Holy mackeral!
The report finds that brown sea vegetables have an "incomparable" amount of mineral, macro and trace elements, including iodine which is used to treat enlarged thyroid glands
Good to high vitamin B12, C and E understood to be good for healthy nerve cells and DNA production and c and E for anti-cancer and heart disease fighters and good for healthy bones and teeth.
Eaten in Asia from ever since
Seaweed, er sea vegetables, are basically broken up into four categories, the brown, the red , the green and the less than appetizing sounding; microalgae, better known as spirulina.
The best known seaweed is the red kind that is used in sushi, known as nori or gim., also called laver.
I've tasted the spirulina. It's revolting unless you like the taste of lake dirt.
You can purchase sheets of seaweed and eat it straight like potato chips or wrap it around rice or whatever you like.
The one drawback I've found is that many packaged seaweeds are salted, heavily, so you have to scrape off the salt or buy one of the roasted "sushi" seaweeds without salt.
A few grams a day should do you just fine
The Japanese, massive sea veg eaters eat about 4 pounds per capita of the stuff a year (To compare, Americans eat around 120-140 pounds of potatoes per person every year).
So while drinking six cups of coffee a day may lower your risk of stroke (if you survive the caffeine poisoning), a few sheets of of dried sea veggies are a simple food bursting with health and no jittery, addictive side-effects.
For more info: H Mart, the Korean supermarket chain has an excellent selection .You can also check out your local Asian supermarket.
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