Amazing Benefits of Seaweeds

AMAZING BENEFITS' OF SEAWEEDS Medicinal Uses Uses human foods, cosmetics, fertilisers, and for the extraction of industrial and chemicals curative powers for tuberculosis, arthritis, colds and influenza, worm infestations, and may even improve one's attractiveness to the [HOT SEAWATER AND SEAWEED BATHS gums medicinal and industrial uses opposite sex. Generalised diagram Representative seaweeds Nutrition of the uses of seaweed Phycocolloids* Ascophyllum nodosum Laminaria digitata Alaria esculenta Palmaria palmata Seawater Porphyra Ulva EXTRACTION yezoensis species Carbon Dioxide Biochemicals* Green Brown 70-85 15-25 Red 79-88 15-30 Red nd 7.8 Type Water (%) Ash Total carbohydrates Alginic acid Xylans Brown 73-90 73-90 Brown 73-86 73-86 Sunlight 78 13-22 44.4 42-46 Methane SEAWEEDS FERMENTATION 15-30 20-45 |21-42 to Alcohols 29-45 lo 0-18 4-16 2-4 lo Esters, Acids lo lo 0-10 5-10 4-10 lo 0-34 4-13 Laminaran lo Mannitol Fucoidan Floridoside Other carbohydrates Protein Fat Tannins Potassium Sodium Magnesium Vodine Охудen Nutrient- pu 2-20 Gas nd lo * Chemicals Coal-like PYROLYSIS scrubbed Effluent c. 10 1-2 1-2 nd nd nd 8-15 15-25 0.6-0.7 5-10 2-7 2-10 2-3 3-4 0.5-0.9 0.01-0.1 9-18 1-2 0.5-6.0 nd nd nd 0.05 8-25 43.6 2.1 nd 2.4 1-2 0.3-0.8 Sources: nd 7-9 Fodder* pu 1.3-3.8 0.9-2.2 0.5-0.8 0.3-1.1 o.7 3.3 nd nd Fertiliser* 2.0-2.5 0.6 GOURMANDIA www.gourmandia.net Human food* 0.4-0.5 nd 0.01-0.1 Ind NET www.seaweed.ie