Some Health Benefits of Seaweed

As research pushes on, science and medicine are finding out more and more that seaweed has amazing health benefits. A host of new plant varieties now being called sea vegetables are finally starting to be consumed in Western diets. And even though it seems like a relatively new thing here, some cultures have been eating seaweed for almost 3000 years. Among the sea vegetables are hijiki, rame, kombu, wakame, laver, dulse, and nori. In the same way that regular vegetables provide essential nutrients, vitamins, and minerals to the body, seaweed provides its own set of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, some of which are hand to find in land based vegetables.