Is Seaweed the Next Big Superfood?

Gosh, I've tried really hard to like seaweed. I just can't get over the taste in general. Very hard to digest.

Asians of all kinds have been eating seaweed regularly for centuries.

So this article must be talking about Western cultures right?

New superfood! Where the heck have you been. Seaweed has been part of peoples diets for thousands of years. Here's an idea, log out of facebook, get your face out of your iphone and actually learn something about the world you live in.

Does come with a latte-sucking liberal or a PETA operative?

also that seaweed makes your hair long and beautiful. im from japan and have been eating seaweed all my life. nori is especcially good and most people would love that if not the other kinds which are so-so depending on how you prepare them! :)

My dad was taking kelp pills forty years ago.

This is nothing new, and seaweed is not a "superfood". Asians have been eating seaweed forever. It's just trendy in the U.S. now because we are the country with the obesity problem, hoping for a quick fix.

I was looking for a healthier chip to try and found Lundberg Rice Chips. My favorite flavor is Sesame & Seaweed. Even my husband likes them and he is one of the pickiest eaters I know.

seaweed like fish retain toxins like, but not limited to mercury

More FAD Foods... Just eat sensably..................

in asia they put seaweed on everything you wouldnt believe. seaweed spagetti, pizza with seaweed topings, seaweed fried rice, seaweed noodles, seaweed on crakers, and as i said you wouldnt believe seaweed on buttered bread.

hehe my famly eat seaweed since long time b4..

pretty much the reason why i don't eat sushi anymore. as much as i love it, there are more non-asians than asians at sushi restaurants. it's become such a fad food it's almost embarrassing.

Honestly who is even going to drink or eat that whatever I need a good grub when it come to food...Like a chicken sub with lettuce, tomatos, and more...hmmmmm mouth watering.

Honestly who is even going to drink or eat that whatever I need a good grub when it come to food...Like a chicken sub with lettuce, tomatos, and more...hmmmmm mouth watering.

We are so slow to learn from other cultures that solved many problems we still face. Miso soup with wakame seaweed served with rice makes burgers and fries look dumb. Recipes: Dashi (stock) - put a length of kombu (laminaria) in a gallon of water, let stand a few hours. This is your cooking and tea water. Wash and roast kombu pieces in the oven. Tastes like potato chips. 'Zen Macrobiotics' says it's good for high and low blood pressure, shrinks tumors. I gave some to a short 300 lb. woman with severe edema at the ankles. When it worked she asked me to give her a diet. She lost 160 lbs.
Plants that grow in water, shed water. Lotus root and seaweed maintain their purity in dirty water.
Our 'nutrition facts' labels tell us nothing about the properties of the plants we eat.
Kids with toasted nori seaweed in their lunchbox don't crave sweets. Wakame is the best source of assimilable calcium. Calcium from animal and mineral sources leave calcium deposits and have been claimed to cause calcium loss (Louis Kervran- Biological Transmutations).
When I learned Macrobiotics 30 years ago due to a cancer scare I abandoned what my parents taught me, stopped going to doctors and threw out a lot of bad science- with good results.

Asians and Polynesians have been eating seaweed for hundreds of years. It's part of our normal daily diet in Hawaii.

Did I miss the coconut water fad? Dang!

I'll try to be sure to catch this before next weeks one comes out.

Sigh...sometimes it's really hard being an American.

Seaweed, specifically Kombu seaweed, is only one of natures finest source of MSG (monosodium glutamate) which is now being renamed as an excitotoxin. An excitotoxin is something that when eaten, causes the primitive part of your brain cells to fire rapidly and randomly until they die.
This may be soon linked to Autism, Alsheimers, Obesity, Diabetes, Fibromyalgia, Tachycardia (rapid heartbeat) and a whole list of symptoms that family doctors are prescribing lots of lifelong therapy with a "pill" recommendations. I say, don't eat seaweed.

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truthinlabeling.org

I totally agree with JD. You're right. I'm part Chinese/Spainard (Spain)not Mexico/Native American. My ancestors have been using herbs & natural foods for thousands of years. Americans are stupid (even though I was born here)I like being a mute!! Certain types of Americans are stupid.......They're always looking for "easy ways" out of health situations---just lazy, put it on someone else to do it for me,,,isn't there a pill I can take..help me & I don't have to work for it.

Super foods, bull!!! Almost all raw vegetables/plants/herbs we are able to eat are super for our bodies. They contain living enzymes....that's the energy for the body that way the body doesn't have to stop repairing itself from the stupid things we put in it to digest our food....it comes with the living food. HELLO. Did you also know that the drugs they give people for various ailments start with "herbs/plants? HELLO!!!!

Oh incidentally, sushi is not raw seafood. Sushi is anything with vinegar/rice/seaweed. Sashimi is raw, aged seafood.

Glen, don't know where you're going boy, but if you'd venture to go to an ASIAN market you can get fresh, dried, slivered, seaweed and seaweed salad, like a garnish. It does not cost frickin $7. You must be talking about somebody's stupid restaurant...wherever the hell that is. I'm in California in the San Fernando Valley & you must be going to bushee, bushee places. Seaweed only costs me between $1.50-maybe $3.50/pkg. Anyway.....I'm just sayin'. You need to learn to cook & save yourself.