Kelp is a healthy and nutritious sea vegetable that is high in fiber, vitamins, and minerals, including vitamin C, vitamin K, iron, calcium, iodine, and magnesium. Kelp has long been part of the diet of Asian cultures, and, in fact, Saccharina japonica (a relative of our native Saccharina latissima) is the number one aquacultured species worldwide by weight. Although the majority of kelp marketed in the US is harvested from the wild, the development of a kelp culture industry, …