While kelp forests persist along northern Maine's rocky coast, kelp abundance has declined by as much as 80% on the southern ...

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There's about 250 or more food products that you can make out of kelp, but a lot of people don't know how to prepare it and eat it. And the native people have been harvesting kelp for thousands of ...

Kodiak Kelp Fest is underway at various locations around town. The festival is meant to introduce Kodiak to kelp’s economic ...

However, even people who eat seaweed regularly don’t get most of their iodine from this food. For most people, the primary dietary source of iodine is table salt. While eating kelp could help ...

With more than 70 businesses participating annually, Maine Seaweed Week is the largest seaweed food and drink festival in North America. Celebrating Maine’s kelp harvest and showcases ...

Kelp is rich in umami; the fifth lesser known taste alongside sweet, sour, bitter, and salty. Umami gives food a savory or meaty flavor. Seaweed contains ten times as many minerals as plants grown ...

Kelp may be one of the first species to show how coastal ecosystems will respond to the L.A. fires. These forests of fast-growing brown algae provide food and habitat for hundreds of marine ...

The study is the first to quantify the importance of kelp-derived carbon to the food web in the Gulf of Maine, highlighting how kelp forest collapse is reshaping energy dynamics in this rapidly wa ...