Learn from The Maine Sea Kitchen (Great Food and Products with a Hint of the Sea) why you should be buying your Sea Vegetables from Maine, read a blog about cooking with Maine Seaweed, and be sure to check out a book about good nutrition and how it affects our bodies, "How to Eat Healthier to Keep the Doctor Away".

One of the greatest super foods on the planet is seaweed, and it is becoming widely recognized for serving as a significant source of several nutrients vital for good health for humans as well as animals – including pets, horses and livestock.

Now that radiation from the Japanesese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has reached the United States and officials assure us that “it does not pose a public safety risk to people outside of the disaster area”, we still believe it is prudent to protect your family by ensuring they are getting an adequate supply of iodine in their diet. Iodine protects our thyroid from many sources of radiation, such as cell phones and x-rays. Besides it is important for overall health.

For people following vegan, vegetarian, raw or macrobiotic diets one of the biggest challenges is meeting daily nutritional requirements. Since meat and fish are a primary source of these nutrients, if you reduce or eliminate animal products from your diet it is imperative you find other sources to meet your Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA). That’s where seaweed can help! For example, one gram of seaweed contains enough iodine to meet your daily RDA. Seaweed can also contain up to 10x more calcium than milk, and 8x as much as beef. Seaweed is also organic and kosher.