The difference between sea lettuce and kelp is like this

Sea lettuce and kelp are common foods in daily life and look very similar. If you are not very familiar with these two foods, it is easy to confuse them. So what are the differences between sea lettuce and kelp? Let’s take a closer look at it below!

Kelp is a type of algae that mainly grows on the seabed. It is in the shape of a long ribbon with a dividing line in the middle. You can observe it carefully. Sea lettuce is also a type of seaweed, but its consumption in Korea is relatively high. If left for too long, it will turn green-brown.

In fact, as long as we learn more about related articles, it is relatively easy to distinguish sea cabbage and kelp. We can distinguish them from their middle part. There is a dividing line in the middle part of kelp, but there is no dividing line in the middle part of sea cabbage. This is one way we distinguish them.

Kelp is an algae (wild kelp) of the Laminariaceae family of algae.

Plant morphology: The algae is brown, long and ribbon-shaped, leathery, generally 2-6 cm long and 20-30 cm wide.

The algae body is clearly divided into holdfast, stalk and blade.

The holdfast is rhizoid-shaped, with a thick and short cylindrical petiole and broad, long, ribbon-shaped leaves on the upper part of the petiole. There are two parallel shallow grooves in the center of the leaf blade, with the middle band in the middle, 2-5 mm thick, and the two edges of the middle band are thinner and have wavy wrinkles.

It is farmed along the coast of our country, and can be found on rocks 2-3 meters deep below the low tide line on wild beaches.

The sodium alginate in kelp can prevent leukemia and osteomalacia; it also has a hemostatic effect on arterial bleeding, and oral administration can reduce the absorption of the radioactive element strontium-90 in the intestine.

Sodium alginate has a blood pressure lowering effect.

Kelp starch has the effect of lowering blood lipids. In recent years, it has also been discovered that an extract from kelp has anti-cancer effects.

Kelp mannitol is effective in treating acute renal failure, cerebral edema, Japanese encephalitis, and acute glaucoma.

People with weak spleen and stomach should eat less.

Kelp is a type of marine algae and is named after its belt-like shape.

Kelp is rich in nutrients, especially iodine.

Before eating, it should be soaked in clean water overnight before processing.

It can be eaten cold, stir-fried, or simmered with meat in soup.

The following requirements should be considered when choosing kelp: green-brown and oily in color, thick in texture, long and wide in body, dry, with few broken skirts, and no white rot, yellowing or attachments on the tip and edges.

The scientific name of sea cabbage is wakame. Koreans eat a lot of it. It is a kind of seaweed, green in color, usually cut into small pieces, with a stem in the middle and wavy leaf edges on both sides.

Over time, it will fade to green-brown.

Koreans generally like to buy this kind of thing as a side dish, because it easily turns brown during processing, and usually a little green food coloring is added to it and then dyed green.

I like to eat it cold, and it’s also good in hot pot.

It is about the same color as kelp, about 4-5 cm wide, 3-4 mm thick, quite long, and usually cut into sections.

Through the article's introduction to the differences between sea lettuce and kelp, I believe you should have a certain understanding of the differences between the two. As long as we grasp one of their differences, we can distinguish them. So you can find out their differences based on the introduction in the article, and you will know whether it is kelp when you buy it.