4 tips to forage seaweed and enjoy Kate Middleton’s skin-glowing facial for free
20.08.2022 - 12:55
/ ok.co.uk
Yes, it’s that slimy green stuff that makes you shudder when you swim across it in the sea. But we Brits are becoming aware that seaweeds – or sea veggies – are a rich source of vitamins and minerals. In the last year alone, Sainsbury’s has seen an 89% increase in online searches for seaweed products, including “Welsh caviar” and “bacon of the sea”.
Even Kate Middleton jumped on the trend. She apparently enjoyed seaweed facials at her parent’s Berkshire home after the birth of Prince George in 2013. Mara Seaweed founder Fiona Houston says, “Seaweed used to be an important part of our native diet.
It’s a truly natural nutritionally dense superfood, containing a unique combination of all 56 vitamins, minerals, electrolytes and trace elements essential for health.” Fiona has four top tips to forage seaweed safely, and for free. Fiona advises how to gather dulse and laver, traditionally used in British cuisine and found around the Welsh coast. "Always check tide times – low tide should give you several hours of safe harvesting time.
"Only forage from areas where you’d be happy to eat shellfish. Cut the seaweed fresh from the rocks where they’re growing, and don’t eat seaweed that has washed up on the beach," she says. Top of the sea crops Samphire There are two types of samphire – marsh and rock.
But only fresh marsh samphire is widely available. Kelp Kelp is the brown seaweed typically found in sushi, sauces and salads. Dulse Dulse is dubbed the bacon of the sea thanks to its smoky flavour.
Mankai Also called duckweed or watermeal, Mankai can be added to curries or used in powder form in smoothies. Carrageen Carrageen is reddish-purple and has been used by the food industry to thicken ice cream. Laver Laver is known as
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