Would you like seaweed with that?
Channel: Deb Verhoeven
Date: 2013-05-07

Get involved in the trialling of Australian seaweeds for their taste and nutritional value:  http://pozible.com/seaweed
Australia is an island nation with a globally significant diversity of seaweeds that are largely unexplored as a food resource. With an ever increasing public awareness of the way our food is produced and the impacts of production on the environment, seaweeds are a potentially sustainable and organic solution to meeting the nutrition and health needs of our nation and beyond. They may not only provide food security in an era of global climate change, but also be actually part of the solution to combating climate change (through CO2 draw down and sequestration). 

We are asking for funding to 1) assess the taste preference of local (Victorian) seaweeds compared with seaweed from other parts of the world.  However, with additional funding beyond that requested we can also 2) examine the nutritional quality of local seaweeds, with comparisons to commercially available species and 3) estimate the local biomass of high-value, edible seaweeds and prospects for sustainable harvesting of wild populations.