Ginger Seaweed Salad

Description

This salad has pickled ginger in the recipe which gives it its distinctive ginger flavour. It contains 106 microgram Iodine per 100g salad. The colour is natural beetroot red. It is ready to eat salad. It also can be part of the main meal, combining well with dairy products, cheese and yoghurt, With Yoghurt it can accompany porridge or be used as a dip or with Pumpernickle or Soda Brown Bread. Suitable cheeses are Mature Cheddar and Soft Blue Cheese. Sardines, Crab, Monkfish and whitefish also go well with it.

All essential minerals are provided by seaweeds. {The Healing Power of Minerals; Berger, 1997}. They often provide minerals normally absent from vegetables grown in freshwater or minerally depleted soils There are 18 measurable minerals recorded for seaweeds. In addition to the major ones of Iodine, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium and Iron, there are also trace minerals such as Selenium, Zinc, Cobalt, Manganese and Sulphur, essential as components of anti-oxidants and co-factors in the body’s biochemical reactions. All seaweeds are high in Iodine and this can be claimed for the seaweed salad products produced by HealthyYou.

The products do not contain any artificial colours, preservatives, MSG or Gluten. They are very low in Fat, contain No Trans Fats They are high in Fibre and this carbohydrate content has a low Glycemic Index.  Seaweeds are the most abundant source of Iodine followed by fish, meat, dairy and eggs. Therefore for VEGANS, it is the only natural food source.