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Seaweed - The Miracle of Human Nutrition

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Eucheuma Cottonii Seaweed 

 

The picture of unwashed and washed Eucheuma Seaweed/Sea Bird Nest in process stages.

• Top picture of Washed Eucheuma Seaweed take about 5 hours to soak and preparation in progress.
• Below is those unwashed Eucheuma Seaweed take at least 3 days of soaking and washing in several times daily in progress.

 It is sea vegetable.  

The marine plant of this organic seaweed is rich in enzyme nutrients, collagen and mineral substance, calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, sodium and multitude fibers and jelly form proteins.

It is especially good for skin care, vegetarian diet and daily fiber diet intake. It grows naturally and contains no artificial fertilizer or chemical. With contain necessary amino acids, non caloric, super low-fat and multi-fibre functions, contents of soluble fibre are very high and the active substances, its polar soluble fibre will adjust insulin to keep blood sugar’s balance and prevent from the diabetes caused by hyperglycemia. It also eliminates free radical efficiently for detoxify body organs and activate cell tissues for metabolism and anti-aging.

Instead of buying expensive bird nest, I prefer to use Eucheuma seaweed to cook with rock sugar. For beauty skin and mainly it keeps me in good health too. It is simply delicious.

How the Eucheuma Seaweed looks like? And what are the benefits?

 

This is unwashed Eucheuma seaweed image. It has a very characteristic shape.

In Asia, Chinese and Japanese have a long history to take seaweed and algae as the herbs of the sea, it is widely used as food and medicine, and we pay much attention to nutrition and health care recently.

Eucheuma Seaweed is significance for human health and function greatly.

The popular sources for carrageenan can be obtained from Eucheuma Seaweed, and it is merely soluble in water which need be at only such temperature as to dissolve the carrageenan composition, extract the active materials for industrial usage, and with great consumption of seaweed for people's living standard has improved and pursued for health foods and health care purposes. Seaweed is natural medicines and disease curing effects on human bodies since thousand of years ago. As there are various types of seaweed in the market now.

For Industrial usage:

1. It can be used as raw material carrageen industry. The most important substance called carrageenan also commonly known as seaweed flour.
   
2. It can be used as emulsifier, stabilizer agent, gel agent for food industry such as this substance is used in the manufacture of ice cream, chocolates, custards, cake topping and fillings, milk shakes, yogurts, dessert gel, canned foods, fish gel, sauces, and many others.
3. It can be used as water based paints, toothpastes, lotions, shampoos, several pharmaceutical products.

For health and beauty care:

This nutritious Sea Bird Nest is best to eat it raw as salad and blend in fruit juice, plus cooking dessert, Jelly, and cooling drinks.

Eucheuma Seaweed nutrition details (per 100g):

Calcium	671 mg
Iron	671 mg
Magnesium	661 mg
phosphorus	139 mg
Sodium	6.31%
Salinity	15.7%
Ph on 4% solution	7.6%
Energy	266 kcal
Protein	0.73g
Carbohydrate	59.9g
Total Lipid	0.05g
Water	91.32g
Fiber	0.5g
Ash	1.36g

Eucheuma Seaweed may promote the oxidation resistance enzyme's activeness, strengthens the liver disintoxicating function, elimination free radical; The suitable supplement (magnesium, zinc, selenium, sulfur, germanium) and so on, it may also carry on the opposing reaction with in vivo heavy metal, heavy metal of toxin in vivo accumulation, discharges in vitro by way of the excretory system. It is very effective for constipation people, and it adjust the body weight, when after human body nonessential waste disposal, the body weight reduces naturally.

In short, Eucheuma / Sea Bird Nest Benefits :

• It adjustments body acidity
• Help to reduce cholesterol
• It is diuretic and good source of low caloric diet
• Good curative powers for neck pain and edema.
• It has antibacterial power, expulsion of toxin
• It helps to prevent thyroid and hair loss
• Prevent constipation
• Long term gastrointestinal disease, like stomach ache, ulcer, constipation, diarrhea, hyper acidity, dyspepsia and so on.
• improvement hypertension and the hypo-tension
• enables the thyroid gland function normalization
• to eliminates nephritis effectively, arthritis,
• Strengthens the blood vessel, promotion blood circulation.
• improves rheumatism
• Suitable supplement of natural collagen for joint cartilage, strengthens the physique and ligament, improves problem on joint ache and backache.
• natural organic sea plant for vegetarian and older age for its supplement in rich calcium and iron.
• Ideal weight lost diet for pre-menopause and obesity peoples.

Rahsia / tip penjagaan kulit badan dengan organik laut

Rumpai Laut penuh dengan vitamin dan mineral serta mengandungi sejumlah besar iodin. Rumpai laut dapat meringankan kesakitan, penyahtoksikan dalam tubuh, meningkatkan melancarkan peredaran darah, meningkatkan metabolisme, dan menurunkan tekanan darah dan kolesterol. 

Alga dan mineral yang terkandung  pada rumpai laut ini juga dapat menenangkan stress dan benar-benar dapat melengkapi fungsi tubuh kita kerana ia adalah tinggi dengan kandungan kollagen yang baik untuk kulit dan organ lain.

Anda boleh menggunakan rumpai laut kering eucheuma cottonii warna coklat/merah/hijau  yang di blender menjadi serbuk sebagai alternatif untuk membuat membungkus tubuh anda sendiri, kerana ia masih memegang unsur-unsur mineral yang lebih kurang  sama seperti rumput laut segar.

Untuk hasil yang terbaik, anda perlu mandi dengan air hangat terlebih dahulu sebelum melakukan pembungkusan rumpai laut ini pada kulit badan anda. Dan banyakkan minum air untuk mengelakkan dehidrasi kerana rumpai laut mempunyai kesan diuretik yang kuat.

• 8oz/ (225g) rumput laut kering di kisar menjadi serbuk
• 2 titis minyak essential lavender
• 1titis minyak essential rosemary
• 3 sudu makan (45ml) dari minyak almond atau minyak zaitun

Kaedah
Campurkan serbuk rumput laut kering yang sudah dikisar dengan jumlah kecil air suam untuk menghasilkan pes.

Campurkan minyak essential lavender dan rosemary bersama minyak almond / minyak zaitun, Kemudian adun ke dalam pes rumput laut. Jika pes terlalu kental/pekat tambahkan sedikit air atau lebih, Jika terlalu tipis dan berair, tambah lagi sedikit serbuk rumpai laut higga pes anda mempunyai konsisten yang baik.

Lumurkan campuran rumpai laut tersebut di seluruh tubuh bermula dengan kaki anda hingga ke atas. Bungkuskan diri anda dengan plastik  atau  selimut thermal foil Cover (boleh digunakan semula). Berkurung /berbaring di dalam bilik yang hangat untuk 20 untuk 30 minit sebelum membilasnya dengan berendam / mandi air yang hangat.