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WHY SHOULD WE EAT SEAWEED??
The abhorrent thought of eating anything untraditional is fast being done away with. The scientific fact-finders have all warned about the dangers of high cholesterol and blood pressure which could lead to heart problems and strokes. If we ignore this and do not lower our consumption of high fat foods, it is almost the same as contemplating an early demise!
The most promising chemical in seaweed is called FUCOIDAN; Sodium is calculated at 2,085 milligrams per 100 grams; Calcium at 296 milligrams per 100 grams, and Potassium at the phenominal rate of 8,060 milligrams per 100 grams.
Rodemnia Palmata is the more formal way to say the word DULSE but for most people, including myself, dulse will have to do. Harvesting of this certain seaweed began with the aboriginies who realized the necessity long before we did. They did not have taxes either! I do not know if we will ever find our way around that one, but it remains a fact they harvested and ate this certain seaweed for reasons we are only now finding out.
One winter in the early part of the sixteen hundreds, the first white settlers to Port Royal lost half of their company to a dreadful disease called scurvy. The Indian inhabitants helped the remaining half and also made them a tea from birch bark, and a seaweed broth.
This is probably the first recording of any significance on the use of dulse - but it is not the last. Most people in the Bay of Fundy area harvested and kept dulse at their homes to eat as a supplement to the other staples and a treat during the cold winter. Most of these people also enjoyed longevity and health without the aid of either Doctors or medicine. Maybe we have been educated completely out of our intelligence and have quite forgotten that the best of almost everything is not all that far from the front door.
Luckily for us, seaweeds are for sale in most stores. You may want to consider adding Roland's DULSE to your next grocery list.
DULSE...DULSE...DULSE...
What is DULSE? - Dulse is an edible sea vegetable harvested from the cold North Atlantic. It has a normally acquired taste and can be eaten right from the package. It has a multitude of other uses such as an additive in soups, stews, chowders and salads. When added to boiling water, dulse will become divided into small, pliable, pretty and most say "a quite palatable substance." If you like a fish chowder of any kind, you most likely would enjoy dulse.
Some eat it - Some don't. Everyone SHOULD! Dulse is an edible seaweed that has 20 minerals of which 14 are medicinal. It's high on iron, iodine, natural calcium, Vitamin "A" & "C". Some doctors say it's good for you; others say that the salt can be bad for high blood pressure; and others say "With all the minerals and vitamins dulse contains, a little won't hurt." It's a fact that everyone eats a few potato chips once in a while and there's more salt in one bag of chips than there is in ten packages of dulse.
I know people who have had a drop in their blood pressure after eating dulse. Who knows for sure? Even water cannot be completely trusted today. I once heard a story about a certain village somewhere in Canada's Bay of Fundy area where everyone ate dulse. After a hundred years or so they had to shoot an old fellow just to start a graveyard.
The Vitamin "E" content is something else. So take heed, "No man should eat more dulse than his wife". The same village mentioned above went from a population of just over two people to over fifteen hundred in the shortest span of years that anyone ever witnessed. The first old fellow to die there was 101 at his time of death. Some say he would still be alive today if he had not drowned on the way to the hospital to try and remove the bullets. Don't laugh. His poor grandmother mourned at the gravesite every day for years.
Now some people might want to accuse me of not being completely truthful but let me assure you, my Irish ancestry has long proved itself a credit to me. I, like all Irish, have always shunned dishonest folks having the audacity to partake in the passing of barefaced lies.
In closing, just let me say it doesn't matter if you like dulse or not. "Dulse is good for you"! So the next time you see dulse in the store, pick up a package and try it. You'll soon see how good dulse is. You might even get to like it. Not only enhancing your health somewhat but possibly adding long years to your lifespan. So smile and be happy. Here's hoping you get to heaven a half hour before the devil knows you are dead.
For the Adventurous, Health-wise, or Gourmet cooks of the world,
here are a few delicious DULSE RECIPES ....
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