Pastes made from Japanese seaweed were once used to heal burns, as it was believed they prevented bacterial infections and ...

In Japan, a nation surrounded by the sea, seaweed has been part of the diet since ancient times. Wakame even appears in the "Manyoshu," the oldest existing collection of classical Japanese poetry.

On top of that, there are no standardized ways to measure the seaweed beds and weights comprehensively and accurately. The Japanese government thus proposed a technique to estimate how broad ...

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