date:Jul 21, 2012
ward seaweed aquaculture,she said.
Higher value seaweed
According to Charrison, given therelativelylow value of whole seaweed food productsand the high costs of labour in Australia, a successful seaweed-based food industry would need to focus on theextraction ofhigher value metabolites from seaweedsto be used as functional food additivesor as nutritional supplements.
For example, seaweed extractshave long been used as a source of dietaryiodine, but more recently there has been great interest