Kelp Seaweed: Health Benefits.

Kelp Seaweed Diet: Health Benefits

"You be the judge!"

Kelp Fucoidan Carbohydrates are Essentially all Fibre

The Science of Seaweed as a Jelly Diet

There are numerous health benefits from eating unprocessed seaweed jelly. The Asian cultures have known about it for centuries, for the origins of eating a seaweed jelly dates back 1200 years. The benefits of eating seaweed as a whole-green jelly, does not compare with other ways of cooking and eating seaweed.

The problem with the research is that every other form of seaweed, such as dried, toasted, sugared, powdered, or pill form, has been studied, but not much research is available yet on seaweed prepared as a jelly.

Some of the benefits of seaweed powders and tablets include boosting the immune system. Some say kelp seaweed can help in protecting against thyroid cancer and other cancers. It decreases high blood sugar and cholesterol levels, as well as detoxify the body from heavy metals, radioactive elements, free radicals, and toxins. You be the judge!

Seaweed jelly can help in weight loss by improving the function of the gastrointestinal tract, by adding fiber to your diet. The high iodine content balances the thyroid function and improves the structure of hair, nails, and helps them to grow.

Seaweed jelly contains calcium, sodium, and magnesium, iodine, phosphorus, iron, zinc, and trace minerals. It is a complete protein and contains all of the essential amino acids.

It contains more of the vitamins A, B1, B2, B5, B12, and C, folic acid, and niacin than land vegetables and fresh fruit - plus significant amounts of Vitamin K, E, and D.... Read more: Order Book

Kelp Seaweed: Nutritional Charts: Composition Of Edible Kelp

Kelp is considered to be a healthy food, particularly a good source of many micro-nutrients essential for human health. Kelp carbohydrates are essentially all fibre because our system cannot digest these molecules.

APPROXIMATE CONCENTATIONS OF SOME COMPONENTS OF KELP AND, FOR COMPARISON, CABBAGE (values are % of dry weight).

Seaweed, kelp, raw

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Scientific Name:  Laminaria spp.
NDB No: 11445 (Nutrient values and weights are for edible portion)

USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 20 (2007)