He holds bags filled with brownish strands of seaweed. This sea moss, the most prized seaweed in the Caribbean, will likely be transformed in local households into a delicious cooling ...

A new report says that a record 38 million metric tons of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, ...

Sea moss is a spiky, frilly sea vegetable that ... Africa and parts of the Caribbean. When dried and packaged, the plant looks like cooked ramen noodles, with tangled tendrils that clump together.

Find out why celebrities are adding the edible sea plant to their diets. You’ve heard about sea moss—likely from your ...

Sea moss dates back to recipes from the 1800s. It has been used as a digestive aid and has even been regarded as an aphrodisiac in the Caribbean, according to Vanessa King, MS, RDN, a registered ...

How you consume sea moss might depend on where you are. It’s one of the key ingredients in agar, a gelatin substitute used in Filipino cooking and vegan desserts. As a child in the Caribbean ...

When rehydrated and blended, dried tufts of sea moss develop a gelatinous texture thanks to the presence of carrageenan. In the Caribbean, sea moss has been used for medicinal, cosmetic ...

Let's take a trip to the Atlantic Ocean, shall we? Along the rocky coastlines of Europe, North America, and the Caribbean there grows sea moss, an edible red algae. This small, reddish-purple ...

especially in coastal regions like the Caribbean, Ireland, and parts of Asia," says Jen Scheinman, MS, RDN, CDN. Known for its high nutrient content, sea moss is a great source of iodine ...