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Snack on Seaweed
B ored with popcorn, delicious, nutritious and better for our planet. Seaweed has been used as food by coastal communities around the world for centuries, and it continues to be a staple in Asian cuisine. Tasty and savoury, it is a favourite with adults as well as children. It is also one of the most sustainable crops, and has been hailed as a climate solution and true ‘food of the future’. peanuts and pretzels? Seaweed snacks are Nori is a popular edible seaweed species, best known for being used to make the sheets that sushi is wrapped in. However, the best way to eat nori is raw. When nori is harvested and air-dried, with no subsequent manufacturing or processing, all the wonderful nutrients are preserved. This is why Pacific Harvest’s new 100 percent raw and organically farmed seaweed snack has a 5-star health rating.
Switch it up ... Here are five compelling reasons why you should swap to seaweed snacks.
1 A rich source of iodine. One 2-gram sachet of Pacific Harvest’s Nori Seaweed Snack provides 109 percent of your recommended daily intake (RDI) of iodine, which is essential for thyroid, metabolic and hormonal health. 2 Vegan-friendly. vitamin B12 If you follow a plant-based diet, it can be challenging to find B12-rich foods rich because it is most often present in animal foods. Nori is one of the only plant-based foods to provide vitamin B12, which you need for immune and brain function, and energy production. A single-serve Nori Seaweed Snack sachet provides 62 percent of your RDI for vitamin B12. 3 Less fat, more protein. Each Nori Seaweed Snack contains just 4.5 percent naturally-occurring fat – this
is only 10 percent of the fat found in baked or fried seaweed sheets. Nori also provides the highest protein content of all edible seaweeds, and each Nori Seaweed Raw Snack contains a hefty 35 percent plant protein, making it equivalent to other plant protein snacks which are often highly processed. 4 Fully recyclable packaging . Seaweed absorbs moisture, so while Nori Seaweed Raw Snacks cannot be packed in compostable materials because this would compromise product quality, the packaging is fully recyclable. 5 Grab – and go! Nori Seaweed Raw Snacks are the tastiest and handiest on-the-go snack around. Pop them in your handbag, picnic basket, and beach basket, serve them with drinks and slip them into kids’ lunch-boxes.
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