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Nutritious seaweed surfaces as the new veggie on American dinner plates.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)

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Byline: Bill Daley

The way Americans are going gaga for sushi rolls, seaweed may one day be as American as apple pie or corn on the cob.

Nori is the seaweed star, derived from a marine algae called porphyra. Processed into paperlike sheets, nori may be too stylized for most people to think of it as seaweed. Certainly, nori doesn't look or smell like the stuff you steer clear of on the beach.

But more and more Americans are eating the stuff, whether they know it's seaweed or not. And some more adventurous eaters are exploring other types of seaweeds, whose flavors range from bland to briny to smoky.

"People do get (seaweed)," said ...

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