In this file photo, a shopper purchases dried seaweed products at a supermarket in Seoul on July 2, 2024. (Yonhap) dried ...

In this file photo, a shopper purchases dried seaweed products at a supermarket in Seoul on July 2, 2024. (Yonhap) (LEAD) ...

Angus MacDoughall has been harvesting seaweed on and off since he was 17 when his fishing work dried up. Now at 73, he still harvests three to four days each month. “It gets you out of the house ...

Unless gathered absolutely fresh, seaweed tends to be sold dried. It is available fresh from May to June. Carrageen, or Irish moss, is used as a vegetarian gelling agent in some processed foods.

Seaweed needs to be processed quickly. At a small plant in the Faroese village of Kaldbak, machines clean the harvest. Some is dried and supplied to food manufacturers. The rest is fermented and ...

The final installment will feature a salad that uses a “dried food of the sea,” wakame seaweed. In Japan, a nation surrounded by the sea, seaweed has been part of the diet since ancient times.

The membrane is made from seaweed farmed in northern France. It's dried and ground down into powder, and then a secret recipe transforms it into a thick, gloopy fluid, which dries to form a ...