TSN: The Seaweed Nation: Welcome!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Welcome!

Welcome to "TSN: The Seaweed Nation" -- a blog on notable therapeutic uses of seaweed, in particular brown or red seaweed. For your convenience, the five posts listed below (in order of occurrence: history, active components, current uses, adverse effects and sources) are also listed in the tabs above.

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So, what exactly is "seaweed"?

Seaweed is a "loose, colloquial term encompassing macroscopic, multicellular, benthic marine algae; includes members of red, green and brown algae" (source: Wikipedia)

Seaweed is the collective term for marinal algae. Multiple species of different “types” are available, i.e. brown, red or green (McHugh, 2003). Current seaweed research, e.g. PubMed, has emphasized properties of brown and red seaweed for different diseases.

Brown seaweed (or “brown algae”), is also a collective term for algal species in which fucoxanthin predominates over chlorophyll, giving the plant its brown colour. Majority are found in cold waters. Red seaweed (or "red algae") has an abundance of phycoerythrin and phycocyanin instead of chlorophyll, hence the red colour. Seaweeds, such as palmaria palmata are primarily marine algae. Green seaweed have both chlorophyll a and b, and have been commercially produced for beta-carotene (Guiry, 2010; McHughs, 2003).

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

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