ITS EDUCATION ASIA ARTICLE

Seaweed stepping up

By Danny Harrington, MD ITS Education Asia

The Seaweed Research Group at the University of Gothenburg Tjärnö Marine Lab are one of the foremost units looking at how seaweed can be a big part of a sustainable future. A number of cultures have a history of including seaweed in their diet, but ramping seaweed as a food source up to impactful levels and in a sustainable way is a whole different challenge. In addition, there is the potential for seaweeds to fulfil other roles such as animal feed, cosmetics, coastal protection, biofuel and more.

They have a good video on seaweed as food on their website:

https://www.gu.se/en/research/seaweed-research-group