Fancy seaweed with your fish and chips?

Substituting your sprinkling of salt with the underwater plant boosts your intake of vital nutrients such as iodine and zinc, while also encouraging the cultivation of an eco-friendly, carbon-capturing crop. Vincent Doumeizel, a UN senior adviser on oceans and food, says that seaweed is the ‘greatest untapped resource on the planet’ and should be rebranded as a vegetable. Once a common food source that was cheap and easy to harvest, it has slowly fallen out of favour in Western countries. Dried flakes are the easiest way to get the green stuff into your diet, as they can used for seasoning.