Seagreens® unique quality assurance for food and nutrition product manufacturers, 2016

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A short introduction to Seagreens® certified ingredients

This short booklet can be viewed or downloaded here.

Europe's Vegetable of the Future - an independent film review, 2013

Henner Thies, a post graduate in Munich, has studied some of the trends in the developing seaweed industry. In this film he interviews some of the people involved including small, artisan producers on the beaches of Cornwall and Seagreens larger scale harvesting to produce seaweed food and nutrition ingredients in Scotland, set against a backdrop of academic interest in potential futures like biofuel and artificially cultivated production.

Seagreens Seaweed Health Foundation

The Foundation, a not for profit company set up by Seagreens' founder in 2011 and now a group of non-profit activities administered by Seagreens Trust, holds public events, initiates or co-ordinates research, publishes data of value to industry, media and the public, and continues to improve industry standards.

From 2014 it worked with the Biodynamic Association, seaweed producers and industry to introduce the world's first quality assurance scheme and standard for the production of Nutritious Food Seaweed. It ensures that consumes have direct access to the full nutritional and other composition of NFS Certified seaweed ingredients.

Foundation research projects in the UK and overseas betsween 2008 and 2015 were the first to use natural whole native wild seaweeds in nutrition research anywhere in the world, including the most comprehensive analysis of the north Atlantic Wrack species worldwide. Foundation information is authoritative, free to the public, and is delivered by publication and public events in many countries.

Access is via Seagreens Information Service at info@seagreens.co.uk. 

Seaweed for Health - free information and public access events

The Seaweed Health Foundation has held public events in many locations over the years and since 2012 annually at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. Click on the video bottom right for a typical weekend event, held in beautiful September weather in 2017.