Stop Everything: There’s a New Seaweed That Tastes Like Bacon and Is Better for You Than Kale

Time ^ | 07-16-2015 | Helen Regan

[Red Badger]

Dulse seaweed: a new variety, when cooked, reportedly tastes like bacon =============================================================================================

The world's most perfect food may have just arrived!

Researchers from Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center say they’ve created and patented a new type of seaweed that has the potential to be sold commercially as the next big superfood.

The reason? It tastes just like bacon, they claim.

The bizarre but tasty creation is actually a new strain of red marine algae called dulse that is packed full of minerals and protein and looks like red lettuce.

Dulse normally grows in the wild along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines and is harvested, dried and sold as a cooking ingredient or nutritional supplement.

“Dulse is a superfood, with twice the nutritional value of kale,” said Chuck Toombs, a faculty member in OSU’s College of Business and a member of the team working to develop the product into a foodstuff. “And OSU had developed this variety that can be farmed, with the potential for a new industry for Oregon.”

The team began researching ways of farming the new strain of dulse to feed abalone, but they quickly realized its potential to do well in the human-food market.

“There hasn’t been a lot of interest in using it in a fresh form. But this stuff is pretty amazing,” said chief researcher Chris Langdon. “When you fry it, which I have done, it tastes like bacon, not seaweed. And it’s a pretty strong bacon flavor.”

They’ve received a grant from the Oregon Department of Agriculture to explore dulse as a “special crop” and are working with the university’s Food Innovation Center in Portland and several chefs to find out ways dulse could be used as a main ingredient.

[Red Badger]

Praise the Lord! Kosher Bacon!...............................

[marmar]

That’s awesome.......I hope it really taste like bacon. lol

[right way right]

No pigs were harmed in creation of this B.S.

[mojito]

The Irish have been eating this stuff, or something similar, for a long time.

[Vaquero]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3312522/posts

A different article on the same subject

[WayneS]

When you fry it, which I have done, it tastes like bacon, not seaweed. And it’s a pretty strong bacon flavor.”

How can it taste more like bacon than bacon does?

[Telepathic Intruder]

"...to find out ways dulse could be used as a main ingredient."

If it really tastes like bacon, then it's not necessarily just an "ingredient".

[Fiddlstix]

Yum Yum!

[Red Badger]

I don’t question God’s gifts.....................

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

I like seaweed, got some prepared snacks in my fridge, and dried in my cupboard.

[SandRat]

Moo-Shell wants it for use in her school menus.

[Red Badger]

If it truly does, it will hit the market like a new iPhone!..............................

[hosepipe]

What a concept... the un-bacon...

[Patriot Babe]

LOL Does this mean a more healthier BLT?

[R_Kangel]

"Dulse seaweed: a new variety, when cooked, reportedly tastes like bacon..."

...... New variety? .... do they mean newly discovered or is it a GMO?

[DoughtyOne]

[hosepipe]

Tomato, lettuce and dulse sandwitches..

[WayneS]

Somehow, Seaweed, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich (SLT) just does not have the same mouth-watering "ring" as BLT...

[hosepipe]

Some vegetarian somewhere just dropped to his knees for prayers of thanksgiving....

[WayneS]

Hmmmmmm.

Good point.

I shall have to investigate further...