Eating seaweed has entered the culinary mainstream, but it's still mysterious on many levels. When creating an entire salad around this salty, savory ocean algae, you definitely want to get it right.

Seaweed, the colorful macroalgae that grows in the ocean, is a food source for marine life and humans. Each type of seaweed has a unique set of nutrients and can boost vitamin and mineral intake if ...

When it comes to marine plants, none are more common than seaweed. Especially because many of the most well-known aquatic plants including sargassum, kelp, red algae and phytoplankton are all ...

Just below the water’s surface along the Mendocino coast is something unsung and spectacular: a forest of some of the earliest and most nutritious types of plants on Earth – seaweed. And so it was ...