Posts tagged 'kombu'

Kelp is an excellent source of minerals that have been depleted from top soil around the world. Kelp is a wild food from the ocean and a great source for a complex of minerals hard to find in 'land food'. Kelp is unique in the world of nutrition and the benefits they provide are incomparable to any other vegetable.Kelp flakes are convenient for travel and ready to use at the table. Simply shake them onto your salad, into your soup or on other dishes. Uniquely salty and can be used instead of salt to provide an array minerals.

Kelp is also known as "wild atlantic kombu". The main benefit of this sea vegetable is its rich content of minerals particularly iodine. Kelp is a natural source of this essential thyroid metabolism regulating mineral. Kelp is also rich in the anti oxidant compound fucoxanthin. Dulse One of my personal favorites of the sea vegetable varieties is Dulse. Like nori, dulse can be eaten straight out of the package making a quick healthy snack. It is exceptionally tasty and contains many of the same benefits as other seaweeds: rich in minerals, protein dense, good source of iodine, healing and cleansing aliginate compounds.