Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's guide to wild edible seaweeds. As this recipe site has grown it has become necessary to split out and make more readily accessible various sub-sections of the site. The number of edible seaweeds described on this site has not grown large enough that they warrant their own page, as well as being described amongst the other wild foods on the site. These pages are an attempt at bringing all links to the edible seaweeds described here into one place. To use this guide simply click on the image or the name of the seaweed described below. This will take you through to a page describing the seaweed and which also provides links on this site to recipes describing the means of preparation of that particular seaweed. There are 66 recipes in total.

Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae. The term includes some types of Rhodophyta (red), Phaeophyta (brown) and Chlorophyta (green) macroalgae. Seaweed species such as kelps provide essential nursery habitat for fisheries and other marine species and thus protect food sources; other species, such as planktonic algae, play a vital role in capturing carbon and producing at least 50% of Earth's oxygen.

Humans have a long history of cultivating seaweeds for their uses. In recent years, seaweed farming has become a global agricultural practice, providing food, source material for various chemical uses (such as carrageenan), cattle feeds and fertilisers. Due to their importance in marine ecologies and for absorbing carbon dioxide, recent attention has been on cultivating seaweeds as a potential climate change mitigation strategy for biosequestration of carbon dioxide, alongside other benefits like nutrient pollution reduction, increased habitat for coastal aquatic species, and reducing local ocean acidification. The number of seaweed species is still a topic of discussed among scientists, but it is most likely that there are several thousand species of seaweed.

This page focusses on edible seaweed species. Enjoy...

Edible Seaweed

Bladderwrack Fucus vesiculosis	Brown Leafweed Petalonia fascia
Carragheen (Irish Moss) Chondrus crispus	Dabberlocks Alaria esculenta
Dulse Palmaria palmata	Gutweed Enteromorpha intestinalis
Laver (Nori) Porphyra sp	Oarweed (Kombu) Laminaria digitata
Pepper Dulse Osmundea pinnatifida	Sea Lettuce Ulva lactuca
Sea Spaghetti Himanthalia elongata	Serrated Wrack Fucus serratus
Spiral Wrack (Twisted Wrack) Fucus spiralis	Sugar Kelp (Kombu Royale) Saccharina latissima