You can eat it.

The color is black and bright, the taste is delicious, and the taste is crisp ... As a snack, seaweed is deeply loved by children and women. However, many consumers still don't know its nutritional value. In fact, the raw material of seaweed is what China people usually call laver. After the laver is baked, the texture is crisp and tender, and it melts in the mouth. Especially after seasoning, adding seasonings such as oil and salt becomes a particularly delicious "seaweed".

In our neighbors, Japan and Korea, seaweed is an essential food in the family. Porphyra has always been one of the highlights on the dining table, whether it is laver rice balls or shredded laver soaked in rice. The consumption of seaweed in Japan is staggering. Before 10, the consumption of Japanese seaweed had reached185,000 tons per year, equivalent to 4. 1 g per person per day. In contrast, people in China eat much less laver, and many people can't eat a slice all the year round.

Seaweed concentrates all kinds of B vitamins in laver, especially riboflavin and nicotinic acid, as well as many vitamins A and E and a small amount of vitamin C. Seaweed contains about 15% minerals, including potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, copper and manganese. It is necessary to maintain normal physiological functions, especially selenium and iodine. These minerals can help the human body to maintain the acid-base balance, which is conducive to the growth and development of children and to delaying the aging of the elderly.

As a snack, seaweed has low calories but high fiber content, and there is almost no risk of getting fat. It is a delicious snack that women and children can safely eat.

The benefits of seaweed lie not only in nutrition, but also in health care.

British researchers discovered in the 1990s that seaweed can kill cancer cells and enhance immunity. Phycobiliprotein contained in seaweed has the application prospect of lowering blood sugar and anti-tumor, and polysaccharide has many biological activities such as anti-aging, reducing blood fat and anti-tumor. Alguronic acid contained in seaweed also helps to remove toxic metals such as strontium and cadmium from the human body. Medical staff have also developed marine drugs and health foods with unique activities from seaweed, which can effectively prevent nerve aging and regulate the body's metabolism. In addition, seaweed can also prevent and treat peptic ulcer, delay aging and help women keep their skin smooth and healthy. Some folk remedies often let postpartum women eat seaweed, which is said to have obvious lactation effect.

Although seaweed has various benefits, people who are deficient in spleen and stomach and prone to abdominal distension should not eat more, because Chinese medicine believes that seaweed is sweet, salty and cold. In addition, people who need to control salt should also appropriately restrain the consumption of seasoned laver, and can eat some seasoned laver slices appropriately.

Seaweed can be eaten in many ways besides being a snack. For example, when eating, it is accompanied by some seasoned seaweed cut into small pieces, which tastes delicious and increases appetite. When preparing cold dishes and salads, add a little shredded seaweed, which can be used as seasoning; When mixing stuffing, you can add seaweed, and then wrap jiaozi and steamed buns.