Posted on 07/26/2015 9:22:41 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Now this is what they should be doing instead of focusing on Climate Change.
Is it Halal?
Thought I read that they made this into bacon flavored seaweed....not that it had bacon taste au natural.
Something else that tastes like bacon...bacon!
Plus it looks, smells, and crunches like bacon, because it’s, well, bacon.
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I have DREAMS just like that!
God Bless researchers
Oregon already has a new industry
Doesn’t taste like bacon though
Bacon and Coffee are the base layer of my Food Pyramid! :)
Yea, something green and comes from the see is not bacon. But I’m sure liberals will buy it, they fall for anything.
The two biggest lies of the century:
I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
Saturated fat consumption leads to heart disease.
Now if someone can just figure a way to make kudzu taste like pulled pork...
They had this on tv.mthe tester said it tasted like seaweed. It has to be prepared before it tastes like bacon. Probably by cooking it in bacon...
Mine too.Throw in two or three 5 hour energy drinks and I’m good to go.
“It has to be prepared before it tastes like bacon. Probably by cooking it in bacon...”
There’s a REASON Grandma always had that canister of Bacon Drippings on the stove! OMG! Green Beans sauteed with bacon and cracked peppercorns. My favorite! Miss you SO MUCH, Grandma!
*HEART* (She died of non-bacon related natural causes.)
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