Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A.-based Netuno USA is partnering with Tampa Bay, Florida-based shellfish farming firm Two Docks Shellfish, to investigate the possibility of growing seaweed in southwest Florida using oyster-farming equipment. Netuno USA, which supplies frozen ...
And those uses go way beyond just renewable biomass energy: “Presently, macroalgae, or seaweed, is primarily used as food for human consumption, but there is a growing opportunity for the production of macroalgae for use as feedstock for fuels and chemicals, as well as animal feed,” MARINER...
Today, seaweed is still part of the habitual diet in many Asian countries. Seaweed consumption also appears to be growing in popularity in Western cultures, due both to the influx of Asian cuisine as well as notional health benefits associated with consumption. Isolates of seaweeds (particularly ...
One specific type of seaweed, Hizikia fusiforme (Hijiki), has been observed to accumulate significant amounts of total arsenic (both organic and inorganic forms). While the Japanese Government reassures its safety, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) advises against consuming hijiki se...
The name "kombucha" is derived from the Japanese terms "kombu" (seaweed) and "cha" (tea). In Western countries, the product is typically propagated in black tea. Growing spores are floated on the surface of brewed, sweetened black tea, with the mycelium doubling in mass approximately every...
Seaweed production globally has grown rapidly in recent decades.Most growth was in Asia, but there have been production increases in Africa and Latin America.There is growing attention to the potential for seaweed to provide non-terrestrial nutrients without the need for land, freshwater, or chemica...
Sea lettuce, which has the scientific name of Ulva lactuca and belongs to the family Ulvaceae, is perennial green seaweed that has a broad, translucent frond, which are two cell layers thick. It is the type species of the genus Ulva. A synonym is U. fenestrata, referring to its “windo...
For information on red, blue, or green algae, see the Seaweed monograph. History Spirulina has been described in the literature since the 16th century. Spanish explorers observed the Aztecs harvesting a blue mud that probably consisted of spirulina. The mud, which was dried to form chips or fl...
with the added benefit of greater food security. At the mariculture sites themselves, opportunities to improve the carbon profile abound, for instance by “cofarming bivalves with seaweed, which can lead to a net reduction in CO2 emissions, and cofarming fed finfish with seaweed or bivalves....
Functional foods, defined as foods that not only meet nutritional needs but also confer health benefits, are growing at an unprecedented rate, with the glo... Nissreen Abu〨hannam,S Cox - John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 被引量: 5发表: 2013年 A comprehensive approach to formulation of seaweed-enric...