Organic Fresh Sea Bean Algae
Fresh Organic Sea Bean Algae, 1kg or 500g
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Sea Spaghetti seaweed in sea salt, in 1kg or 500g packs
Bring a touch of the sea to your plate!
🌿 Also known as "sea spaghetti", sea bean (Himanthalia elongata) is one of the most popular seaweeds. It is harvested at spring tides and can reach 3m in length. Olive green in colour, its discreet taste is much appreciated by many seaweed lovers!
Its taste is slightly sweet, with a light sea fragrance and little iodine flavour. Its beautiful dark green colour and texture are reminiscent of land-grown green beans, hence its name!As the seaweed is preserved in salt, it softens more quickly and becomes more crumbly after a few months. But we are sure you will not need to keep it for 6 months!
Desalting : Your seaweed is preserved in salt. Take the desired amount of seaweed to eat straight away in a salad or in another recipe. Soak it briefly in water for a first desalting. Rinse, then discard the water. Then leave it to soak for two to three minutes in a sufficient amount of water. Rinse.
If the seaweed still tastes too salty, rinse it a third time.
✨ Discover the world of seaweed in the kitchen with Éric and Aurélie's appearance on the set of Télé Matin - France 2's flagship programme - and also watch a report filmed in Roscoff with Bretalg:
✨ As well as this excerpt from a report by France 3 in which Eric introduces you to various fresh seaweeds:
🌿 Also discover our books dedicated to seaweed:
- Algues au quotidien a book by Aurélie and Eric Viard, published by Editions Gallimard, to help you make better use of seaweed in your everyday cooking! Voted best cookbook in the world at the Gourmand Awards 2025 (SeaFood category) & Named best wellness cookbook of 2025 in France by the Académie Nationale de Cuisine
- Cuisiner les algues a book and recipe notebook co-written with BRETALG, published by Éditions Marie-Claire, containing 80 recipes to make you fall in love with seaweed!
🎧 As well as our podcast Algues au Quotidien !
🌿 Its particularities:
The detailed nutritional composition of sea spaghetti is given in the nutritional data sheet from the Centre d'Étude et de Valorisation des Algues below.
Like all marine seaweeds, sea spaghetti contains iodine, which calls for precautions of use for people with hyperthyroidism.
Full nutritional data sheet from the Centre d’Étude et de Valorisation des Algues (per 100g of dried seaweed)
🌿 To find out more, read the following articles and many others in the Seaweed category of our blog:
Seaweed proteins: the complete alternative to meat explained
🌿 In this video you will also find explanations about using seaweed, true jewels of the oceans!
🌿 To find out more about our seaweed and where it comes from, watch our two reports filmed in Roscoff in Finistère, at our partner BRETALG, pioneer of organic fresh seaweed from Brittany. True to our values of transparency and integrity, we wanted to show you the whole process on video, from harvest to your plate.
Hand-harvested on the foreshore – March to July
Best before: 16/03/2027
- Storage : in the fridge.
- Delivery: Seaweed is shipped on a just-in-time basis, so a few extra days are sometimes needed to process your order, depending on the day we are restocked. Seaweed easily withstands several days in transit without refrigeration, even in hot weather, thanks to its salt-bath packaging.
You receive an email on the day your parcel leaves, then your tracking number the following day.
Seaweed sometimes releases a little water during transport, despite double zip packaging. This is rare, but if your box arrives damp, it is not a problem: please accept your parcel and contact us by email so we can sort it out. In 10 years we have always found an amicable solution, but refusing fresh goods means the goods are lost, and we would like to avoid that situation.
- Find all the details about the harvest and bacteriological criteria here: BRETALG technical sheet for fresh Sea Spaghetti
The documents that back up what we write about this product. Every document is dated; we remove those that are no longer valid.
Biovie organic certificate
Valid until 31/03/2027Bretalg organic certificate (Roscoff, Brittany)
Valid until 31/03/2027Wondering… ?
Everything you need to know before ordering.
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