Name: Organic Fresh Sea Lettuce Algae
Brand: BRETALG
SKU: LAITUEMER
Price: 9.5 EUR
Availability: InStock

(Ulva Lactuca)

🌿 Sea lettuceUlva lactuca) is a green seaweed, very common in the Atlantic Ocean, where it is harvested all year round. Fresh, its flexible leaves can be used to make wraps and contain vegetables or preparations.
Its robust flavor, similar to that of sorrel, will enhance your salads and dressings, offering them a true concentration of chlorophyll and energy! Consume after two desalination baths.

Since the seaweed is preserved in salt, it softens more quickly and becomes more brittle after a few months. But we are sure that you won't have to keep it for 6 months !
Desalination : your seaweed is preserved in salt. Take the desired amount of seaweed to consume directly in a salad or in another recipe. Soak them briefly in water for an initial desalting. Rinse, then discard the water. Then let them soak for two to three minutes in a sufficient amount of water. Rinse.
If the seaweed tastes too salty, rinse it a third time.

🌿 Also find our various books dedicated to algae:

- Seaweed in everyday life a book by Aurélie and Eric Viard, published by Editions Galilimard, to help you better utilize the benefits of seaweed in your diet !

- Cooking with seaweed a book and recipe journal co-written with BRETALG, at Éditions Marie-Claire, containing 80 recipes to make you love seaweed !

🌿 As well as this excerpt from a report produced by France 3 where Eric introduces us to different fresh seaweeds:

🌿 Its features:

Its vitamin C content is 8 to 10 times higher than that of an orange, and its vitamin A content is 2 times higher than that of cabbage.
It contains 10 times more iron than spinach and 10 to 20 times more calcium than milk.
10 times richer in magnesium than wheat germ, consuming 20 grams of fresh sea lettuce ensures you meet your entire daily magnesium needs !
Its high antioxidant content makes it a star food in the prevention of certain cancers and cardiovascular diseases.

Complete nutritional profile of the Center for the Study and Promotion of Algae (for 100g of dehydrated seaweed)

🌿 To learn more, check out our blog articles:

Seaweed and microalgae: Benefits, nutrients, culinary uses

Demystifying the Relationship Between Algae and the Thyroid

Fucoidan: Unveiling the Benefits of Brown Algae for Inspired Longevity

🌿 Also find in this video explanations about the use of algae, which are true treasures of the oceans !

🌿 To learn more about our seaweed and where it comes from, watch our two reports filmed in Roscoff in Finistère, at our partner's location. BRETALG, pioneer of organic fresh Breton seaweed. True to our values of transparency and integrity, we wanted to show you in a video the entire process from harvesting to your plates.

Manual collection on the foreshore – From May to October

- Conservation : in the refrigerator

- Delivery: The shipment of seaweed is carried out on a just-in-time basis, and a few additional days may sometimes be necessary to process your order, depending on the day we are restocked. The seaweed can easily withstand several days of travel without refrigeration, even in high heat, thanks to their packaging in a salt bath.

You will receive an email on the day your package is shipped, followed by your tracking number the next day.

It happens that the seaweed releases a bit of water during transport, despite double zip packaging. This is rare, but if your box arrives wet, it's not a problem. Please accept your package and contact us by email to discuss the situation. In 10 years, we have always found amicable arrangements, but refusing fresh goods means the goods are lost, and we wish to avoid these scenarios.