We all eat salad and sushi wrapped in nori (seaweed), but beyond that most people don't know what to do with it. I love seaweed and I buy it often (You can get it at Whole Foods or any Asian market) and brown it in the oven with salt as a lite snack. It has a plethora of health benefits and virtually no calories unlike potato chips.
Seaweed has a wonderful, normalizing effect on the thyroid, it stabilizes blood pressure, lowers cholesterol, and seaweed promotes a healthy intestinal tract. And the best nutritional aspect is, however, that various cancers among those that regularly consume seaweed are extremely low. Eat your Ocean veggies, girls!
Check out this article and crispy Nori chips recipe in the New York Times.
Image via The New York Times
I use a seaweed mask on my face and I LOVE the way my skin feels after it.
Posted by: Marina | Oct 19, 2009 at 01:28 PM