Rating: 3/5 (specifically for people with nutritional difficulties, otherwise it scores a 1/5), available from http://www.rawliving.eu/ for £11.95 (+p&p).
We try to keep healthy, we push our tastebuds to their limits in an attempt to avoid (or at least minimise) tummy troubles, on top of that we all have health conditions that we need to control and certain foods exacerbate certain health conditions. So it's fair to say that, compared to most people, our diet is limited. Which is why we were quite excited when Em came home after work with a jar of Seagreens® Culinary Ingredient (suitable for both cooked and raw foods) from a colleague who had reached the conclusion that was moments away from dawning on us.
It's milled grains of wild ascophylum nodosum seaweed, and its use as a healthy replacement for salt was recommended by a 2008 study conducted by Sheffield Hallam University's Food Innovation project, and is supposed to be used by Bart and Waitrose as an ingredient.
Update: the suggested daily serving for this product is half a teaspoon. The following instructions pertain to Seagreens granules:quarter of a teaspoon if aiming to maintain health, half a teaspoon if you are very ill or pregnant, 1 teaspoon can only be used under professional guidance. Your suitable daily serving is said to have more iron than a plate of broccoli and more calcium than a cup of milk and it's flavour enhancing abilities come from the fact that it is rich in amino acids. When included in a meal with carbs they claim that it helps to reduce acidity and flatulence.
It's supposed to be a flavour enhancer, is packed full of nutrients and allegedly assists the body to rid itself of chemical additives and environmental toxins.
In terms of it's flavour enhancing abilities it works....if you want your food to taste of a new kind of seaweed. We don't mind seaweed, in fact, we love it in salad but this culinary ingredient really doesn't go with something like chicken stock, or butternut squash soup or anything liquid. If you sprinkle it on salad, or noodles then you won't taste anything. Every now and then you might get a burst of mildly tart seaweed flavour between your teeth but other than that your food will taste the same as it would have without the seagreens.
On top of that, we've not noticed much of a change in our digestion. Hmmmm...we're not sold on it. We'll use it until it's finished but I doubt very much that any one of us would buy it.
We'd recommend it for people who have nutritional deficiencies, an autoimmune disease (even diabetes, but Em is scrunching her face up right now!) or any kind of health situation where extra nutrition is required.
Have you tried any Seagreens products? what did you think??
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