And when you hear "Japanese seaweed salad," the green noodle-like variety you're probably thinking of is wakame. Then there's ...

Wakame salad has a slightly oceanic flavor, but it's not overpowering. It has a smooth texture and is available both frozen ...

Just a teaspoon of dried seaweed powder in your morning smoothie can supercharge your nutrition without altering the taste ...

"They are holding up a horizontal line," explains Mr Gregarsen, the managing director of Ocean Rainforest, a seaweed producer. "At every metre another line hangs down, and that's where the seaweed ...

It’s low tide around North Uist, a remote island off the West Coast of Scotland. Dark tendrils of seaweed lie glistening on the rocky shore, and a lone figure in orange waders moves methodically ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Name the last place where you saw seaweed on the menu, not including a Japanese restaurant. Drawing a blank?

The final installment will feature a salad that uses a “dried food of the sea,” wakame seaweed. In Japan, a nation surrounded by the sea, seaweed has been part of the diet since ancient times.