Benefits of seaweed based study recorded 22 species have been used as food. Waters in the region of South Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, Seram Island, Bali, Lombok, Riau Islands and Pulau Seribu 18 types known to be used as food and 56 kinds of food and traditional medicine by the coastal communities.
About Seaweed
As a food, seaweed has been used nation Japan and China since thousands of years ago. Actually what is it seaweed? Seaweeds are marine plants, algae, European society known as seaweed. This plant is a multicellular algae class thallophyta division. Unlike the perfect plants in general, seaweed has no roots, stems and leaves. If we observe the type of seaweed is very diverse, ranging from tubes, round flat, like a branch or twig branches. Seaweeds are usually living on the seabed which can be penetrated by sunlight. Like land plants in general, seaweed also has chlorophyll or other pigment. What color to classify types of seaweed. In general, edible seaweed is a type of blue algae (Cyanophyceae), green algae (Chlorophyceae), red algae (rodophyceae) or brown algae (phaeophyceae).
This is not surprising, because it has a complete nutritional seaweed. Seaweed chemical composed of water (27.8%), protein (5.4%), carbohydrate (33.3%), fat (8.6%), crude fiber (3%) and ash addition of carbohydrates, proteins , fat and fiber (22.25%.), seaweed also contains enzymes, nucleic acids, amino acids, vitamins (A, B, C, D, E and K) and macro minerals such as nitrogen, oxygen, calcium and micro- minerals such as selenium and iron, magnesium and sodium. The content of amino acids vitamins and minerals, seaweed reach 10 -20 times higher than land plants.
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