What are the uses of the seaweed?

Question

With the seaweed is possible make fabrics or another products?please give examples.

Answer 1

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There are many uses of seaweed for humans. You probably know that seaweed is in food but you may be surprised to learn how many different kinds of food you can make with seaweed.
You may know of some household products if you have a fishpond or salt-water aquarium but you may be surprised that there are more household products we all use that contain seaweed.
You will probably know about some crafts that contain seaweed, like pressed seaweed cards, but you may not know there's seaweed in a lot of personal care products, like soap and make-up.
You may not know that seaweed is in fertilizer, too or that some medicines have seaweed. You are going to be surprised about how many different products contain seaweed.

Food with seaweed
There are a lot of foods that contain seaweed. Kelp is harvested and the algin taken from the kelp is used to thicken food. What kinds of food use algin thickeners? In store-bought ice cream, there is kelp. You may also find algin in some breads, beers, pudding, and even salad dressing. A few herbs and vitamins also include seaweed in its composition

Household Products
Did you know that there are household products that contain seaweed? Fertilizer contains seaweed, and so do some soil conditioners and animal feed.

Crafts using seaweed
There are some crafts you can make with seaweed or that contain seaweed. You can make seaweed-pressed cards for example

Personal Care Products
There are also some personal care products that contain seaweed or has algin in it. For instance make-up, soap, toothpaste, and shampoo all contain algin. Spa and body water, facial masks, massage gells and seaweed baths too, among a number of other products all contain seaweed extracts.

Medicinal Use of Seaweed
Seaweed is an ingredient in medicines used to cure at least five major diseases. It has been in medicines used to treat tuberculosis, arthritis, colds, influenza and also worm infections.
Agar, a substance extracted from seaweed, is used in the culture of bacteria and other microorganisms. Petri plates that medical technicians use are lined with agar gels and incubated, and hospital laboratories use agar plates too to identify various types of infectious bacteria.
Agarose is another substance extracted from seaweeds and commonly used in the area of medicine, specifically in chromatoography to purify proteins, DNA and other substances.

Answer 2

Algin, a substance extracted from seaweeds, is used as a thickening agent in many products, including ice cream, toothpaste, bread, beer, pudding, salad dressing, sherbet, cheese, mayonnaise, etc.

Seaweed extracts are also used in the manufacture of latex, rubber, soap, cosmetics, shampoo, shaving cream, and a number of medications.

Answer 3

Common Species and Their Uses

The largest of the green algae, Ulva (sea lettuce), grows to a ribbon or sheet 3 ft (91 cm) long. It provides food for many sea creatures, and its broad surface releases a large amount of oxygen. Fucus, called rockweed or bladderwrack, is a tough, leathery brown alga (though it often looks olive-green) that clings to rocks and has flattened, branched fronds buoyed by air bladders at the tips.

Seaweeds, especially species of the red algae Porphyra (nori) and Chondrus, form an important part of the diet and are farmed for food in China and Japan; other species (often called laver) are eaten in the British Isles and Iceland. Commercial agar (vegetable gelatin) is obtained from species of red algae and is the most valuable seaweed product. Irish moss or carrageen (Chondrus crispus), a red alga, is one of the few seaweeds used commercially in the United States. After being bleached in the sun the fronds contain a high proportion of gelatin, which is used for cooking, textile sizing, making cosmetics, and other purposes. In Japan it is made into a shampoo to impart gloss to the hair.

The kelps generally include the many large brown seaweeds and are among the most familiar forms found on North American coasts. Some have fronds up to 200 ft (61 m) long, e.g., the Pacific coast Nereocystis and Macrocystis, found also off the Cape of Good Hope. Common Atlantic species include Laminaria and Agarum (devil's apron). The kelps are a source of salts of iodine and potassium and, to a lesser extent, other minerals. When the seaweed is burned, the soluble mineral compounds are removed from the ashes (also called kelp) by washing. They are used chiefly as chemical reagents and for dietary deficiencies in people and in livestock. Kelp is also a commercial source of potash, fertilizer, and medicines made from its vitamin and mineral content. Kelps are especially abundant in Japan, and various foods known as kombu are made from them.

The brown algae of the genus Sargassum are called gulfweed. They inhabit warm ocean regions and are commonly found floating in large patches in the Sargasso Sea and in the Gulf Stream. Gulfweed was observed by Columbus. Although it was formerly thought to cover the whole Sargasso Sea, making navigation impossible, it has since been found to occur only in drifts. Numerous berrylike air sacs keep the branching plant afloat. The thick masses of gulfweed provide the environment for a distinctive and specialized group of marine forms, many of which are not found elsewhere.


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Answer 4

sea weed is used when they wrap sushi