If you had the power to make one #unhealthy #snack a very #healthy #superfood, which would it be? - http://clapway.com/2015/07/20/bacon-seaweed-and-7-other-flavors-you-wish-were-healthy/

You have all heard about the magnificent discovery and future plans for bacon-flavored seaweed. Also known as dulse. If not, you should really check out this article. The flavor of bacon is making a comeback (though it never really left) and it’s packing a healthy punch. Bacon-flavored crackers and bacon-flavored salad dressing are just two of the goodies that have been created using a strain of dulse (the bacon seaweed) so far. As dulse makes it way to the American market, it makes you wonder what other healthy foods are out there, that have a naturally delicious flavor. Here are seven flavors you wish were innately healthy:

1. Pizza

Everyone loves pizza. It comes in so many different types of flavors, shapes, and sizes. It is made of different ingredients and most of them are not healthy at all. If you run into a “healthy” type of pizza, it probably doesn’t taste that great. While marine biologist are out finding bacon flavored seaweed, how about finding some pizza-flavored seaweed as well?

2. Hot Wings

I mean, since there is such a thing as bacon seaweed, there has to be hot wing flavored seaweed in the great big ocean. Right?

3. Oreo

Whether you call it cookies n’ cream or Oreo flavored, you know that both are great in pretty much everything. Milkshakes, frappuccinos, and cakes are the best when packed with Oreo flavor. And of course they are all super bad for you. I’ll just wait here patiently for there to be a new superfood that naturally tastes like Oreos.

4. Caramel

Just thinking about the delicious melt-in-your-mouth taste of caramel, makes me want to go and buy a big bag of caramel candy. If bacon seaweed is possible, anything is possible.

5. Butterscotch

You can say this is similar to caramel, but it’s not. Different taste but same unhealthy benefits. Someday, researchers will stumble upon butterscotch flavored turmeric. Turmeric has powerful anti-inflammatory properties that would decrease the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and type 2 diabetes.

6. Ranch

I have friends that put ranch on everything. They put it on pizza, steak, and burgers. I cringe when I see them ruin their food that way. I bet they would love it if a ranch-flavored health food was unearthed.

7. S’mores

I recently tried Starbucks’ s’mores flavored frappuccino, and I have to say that I had to try my hardest to not get one more than once a day. But if it were created with a naturally s’mores flavored superfood, like kale, maybe I wouldn’t object to drinking more than one a day.

Bacon seaweed is great and all, but there are so many other flavors that I wish were innately found in some of our healthiest foods. What are some flavors you wish were healthy?

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Bacon Seaweed and 7 Other Flavors You Wish Were Healthy

#Bacon seems to be everywhere. Who wants to try it in #seaweed form? - http://clapway.com/2015/07/15/yeah-science-bacon-flavored-seaweed-is-the-newest-superfood-234/

Move over kale, there’s a new superfood in town: bacon flavored seaweed! Scientists at Oregon State University have developed a new food item that experts are already saying could be the most nutrient-packed food to date.

When Abalone Food Becomes Human Food

According to Chris Langdon, of Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, the bacon flavored seaweed was originally developed to be a superfood to feed abalone. The newly announced superfood, known as dulse, had been growing in Oregon State University’s laboratories for 15 years. When researchers fed it to abalone, they found that the resulting growth rate of the abalone was much higher than previously expected. Despite growing interest in developing the lab-grown dulse for human consumption, the researchers had only focused on using it to feed the abalone.

The bacon flavored seaweed began a transition to other possible uses, such as human consumption, after Chuck Toombs of Oregon State University’s College of Business saw it growing in Langdon’s office. He was looking for a new project for his business students to take up, so he collaborated with the Food Innovation Center at OSU and they began to develop food items using the bacon flavored seaweed as the main ingredient.

What is Dulse?

Dulse is a wild seaweed, also referred to as palmaria, which grows along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines. It is a lucrative ocean plant, as when it is dried out it is known to have gone for up to $90 per pound.

The newly developed strain of dulse created by the scientists at Oregon State University looks similar to red algae and is translucent. It is said to somewhat resemble translucent red lettuce and is packed with 16 percent of protein and several antioxidants when it is dried out. This particular strain apparently takes on a very strong bacon flavor when it is fried.

Bacon Flavored Seaweed Brings Dulse to America

According to Langdon, Europeans have been using dulse in powder or flake form and adding it to their dishes when they cook, but there hasn’t been much interest in the fresh version. Dulse has been a popular food item in Europe for many years, but across the ocean in the United States, no one has really heard of it. Now that there is a possibility of commercializing its production in American labs, however, this bacon flavored seaweed might just grow in popularity and overtake kale as the most talked about superfood.

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Yeah, Science! Bacon Flavored Seaweed is the Newest Superfood