What Is Fucoidan And What Are The Health Benefits of Fucoidan?
Sea vegetables are becoming increasingly popular in western cuisine and health treatments. Sea vegetables like seaweed,kelp,bladderwrack,kombu,red green and brown algae are all up there in the popularity stakes. Brown seaweed in particular contains many beneficial nutrients including the one which is the subject of this short article, Fucoidan. Fucoidan is an overall term alluding to high molecular sulphated polysaccharides and it is found in the cell walls of those species of brown seaweed particularly kombu, wakame and bladderwrack and it is also found in some species of marine animals like the sea cucumber.