Seaweed
Seaweed can be found along the shoreline washed up with twigs, plastic
bottles, old rope, and shells.
 Seaweeds
are found throughout the world's oceans and seas and none is known to be
poisonous. Many are in fact eaten and considered to be a great delicacy.
Seaweeds are used in many maritime countries for industrial applications and
as a fertiliser.
One of the best "Seaweed" you can eat, comes from South Wales
(The north don't know what it is)
Its called Laverbread, and is sold in the shops around the coast, including
Tesco :)
 Served
with bacon and eggs, its lovely
Laverbread "Porphyra dioica and P. purpurea" is
picked on the coastline of Wales from rocks when the tide has gone out.
Laverbread has an excellent nutritional content, mainly of protein, vitamin
B, B2, A and C and lots of trace elements and minerals, most prominent of
these is iodine. When the seaweed arrives at the welsh factories, it is
inspected and goes through a series of washes. It is then cooked for several
hours with only a little salt added; this produces a very dark, dense
spinach-like puree.
Some of the more common and traditional things to be found at the beach
Bucket & spade
Cockles
Crabs
Jellyfish
Kites
Mussels
Pebbles
Pier
Promenade
Sand
Seagulls
Seaweed
Shells
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