Researchers at Oregon State have patented a new strain of seaweed that tastes like bacon when it's cooked.
The seaweed, a form of red marine algae, looks like translucent red
lettuce. It also has twice the nutritional value of kale and grows very
quickly. Did we mention it tastes like bacon?
According to Oregon State researcher Chris Langdon, his team started
growing the new strain while trying to find a good food source for
edible sea snails, or abalone, a very popular food in many parts of
Asia. The strain is a new type of red algae that normally grows along
the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines.
But Langdon realized he had his hands on something with a lot more
potential when his colleague Chuck Toombs visited his office and caught a
glimpse of the growing seaweed. Toombs said he thought the
bacon-seaweed had "the potential for a new industry for Oregon," he told Oregon State in a press release.
Toombs then began working with the university's Food Innovation
Center, which created a range of foods with the seaweed as its main
ingredient.
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