Kelp, also known as nylon cloth, kelp and Chinese cabbage, is a large perennial edible algae. Spores are large, brown and flat. It is divided into leaves, stalks and fixators, and the fixators are in the shape of pseudoroots. The leaf is composed of epidermis, cortex and marrow, and there are sporangia in the lower part of the leaf. It has a mucus cavity, which can secrete slippery substances. A tree-like branch of fixator, which is used to attach rocks on the seabed and grows in seawater with low water temperature.
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The main value of kelp
1, for food. Protein of kelp contains many kinds of amino acids, especially eight essential amino acids for human body, and its content is very close to the pattern of essential amino acids in ideal protein. Kelp can be used not only as a dish, but also as various foods with unique flavors.
2, used for feeding. Adding kelp powder to feed can effectively improve the nutritional structure, reduce the feeding cost, increase the weight, increase the egg production rate, reduce the mortality rate and improve the quality of cultured varieties.
3. Extracting fucoidan, mannitol, dietary fiber and sodium alginate from kelp as industrial raw materials.
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