Brown Seaweed

Brown Seaweeds gain their colour from Fucoxanthin; a brown pigment adapted for photosynthesis when the seaweed is submerged. They also contain green Chlorophyll.

Fucoxanthin is reputed to promote weight loss by helping to metabolise fatty tissue and help normalise blood sugar levels

Brown Seaweeds - for example Laminaria Japonica, harvested off the coast of Japan, contain a group of sulphur rich polysaccharides known as Fucans or Fucoidans

A japanese study found evidence that Fucoidan has direct anti-cancer effects - It was able to induce apoptosis in Human Lymphoma Cells

Apoptosis is a form of induced/programmed cell death that does not harm the living organism.

Red Algae - inc Dumontiaceae (Dumontia)

Red algae contain a red pigment; phycoerythrin; that absorbs blue light.
Blue light has much shorter wave length and penetrates deeper underwater than light of longer wavelengths.
Red algae are, therefore, better adapted to optimal photosynthesis at greater depths than other seaweeds and algae.

Red Algae are excellent sources of vitamins and protein with fairly simple cultivation and harvesting techniques.

Cryptosiphonia woodii, sulfated polysaccharides, California red algae, Neodilsea americana and Neodilsea integra, Schizymenia pacifica, Ahnfeltia gigartionides, Gracilaria, Laurencia

• Dumontiaceae Pikea
• Gigartina exaspertata
• Gigartina corymbifera
• Microcladia coulteri
• Plocamium cartilagineum
• Graciliaria sjoestedtil
• Cryptosiphonia woodii