I discovered seaweed by accident at a local Japanese market five years ago. What started as a curious purchase turned into a ...

Especially because many of the most well-known aquatic plants including sargassum, kelp, red algae and phytoplankton are all different types of seaweed. In fact, there are more than 12,000 species ...

In addition, the same seaweed can go by different names, depending on the language spoken. There are three main groups of seaweed: Brown algae include kombu, also known as kelp, wakame and hijiki.

As part of Aotearoa's first seaweed festival, Pacific Harvest hosted a seaweed tasting event where people could sample ...