Kelp bud is a kind of highly nutritious marine vegetable that grows in the ocean. It is best produced in the east coast of Miyagi Prefecture and Hokkaido of Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It is a very common food in Korea. Generally, there should be kelp bud soup on the table for birthdays, confinement and family dinners. Undaria pinnatifida is a kind of vegetable with a skirt, which has feathers and grows well in warm seawater.

Not all Undaria pinnatifida are kelp buds, and kelp buds usually refer to the leaves of Undaria pinnatifida, while other parts of Undaria pinnatifida do not belong to kelp buds. Compared with kelp, kelp buds contain more trace elements and have a shorter growth cycle. Although both of them belong to seaweed, kelp buds provide more beneficial components.

There are three differences between kelp and Undaria pinnatifida:

The appearance is different, kelp is 1.5 to 3 meters long, and Undaria pinnatifida is 1 to 2 meters long.

With different growth cycles, kelp is a perennial edible algae, and Undaria pinnatifida is a marine algae of 1 year.

Undaria pinnatifida has different nutritional components, contains more iodine than kelp and has the characteristics of low calorie.

Undaria pinnatifida: Undaria pinnatifida, also known as smart dish, beauty dish, healthy dish and green sea cucumber, is a natural treasure house of trace elements and minerals, containing more than a dozen essential amino acids, calcium, iodine, zinc, selenium, folic acid and vitamins A, B and C.

Kelp: Kelp is rich in kelp polysaccharide. So far, three kinds of polysaccharides have been found: fucoidan, fucoidan, fucoidan, and active ingredients such as acidic polysaccharide, fucoidan, fucoidan, laminin, taurine and bifidus factor. Kelp is a kind of nutritious edible brown algae, which contains more than 60 kinds of nutrients.