The three most taboo seasonings for kelp are pepper, star anise and five-spice powder.

1, pepper

The first is pepper. A lot of people think that pepper can enhance the fresh flavor of seaweed. In fact, this is very wrong. If you add peppercorns to the cold kelp shreds. It will aggravate the fishy flavor of the kelp, resulting in a very unpleasant taste.

2, anise

The second can not be put is anise, add anise, kelp eating taste will be more bitter. The kelp itself is very hard. Particularly not easy to digest. If you add the star anise. Then the dish will be very difficult to swallow.

3, five spice powder

The last one is five spice powder. Although the five spice powder is suitable for cold mix. But mixing shredded kelp is not to be added. It will aggravate his taste. The result is that the shredded kelp is not fresh at all, in fact, when we mix the shredded kelp. Just add the right amount of sugar, soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and vinegar on it.

Geographic distribution of kelp

Kelp belongs to the subduction zone algae, is the North Pacific endemic local species, the Atlantic Ocean also has some kelp distribution. Most of the kelp is distributed in the northern hemisphere, while the southern hemisphere also has a small amount of distribution, generally grows in the subtidal zone on the seabed rocks. Kelp growth is mainly affected by temperature, light, nutrients and plant hormones.

The Pacific Northwest is the concentrated growth of kelp, most of the world's kelp species in this distribution, of which, the greatest economic value of kelp distribution in the western coast of Russia's Tartar Strait, the Gulf of Peter the Great, and Japan's Hokkaido and other coastal sea areas. After the introduction, real kelp is widely distributed in the eastern coastal waters and southern coastal waters of Korea, and also in the coastal waters of Liaodong Peninsula and Shandong Peninsula of China.