Researchers have discovered a seaweed that tastes like bacon and is twice as healthy as kale!

What grows quickly, is packed with protein, has twice the nutritional value of kale and tastes like bacon?

According to scientists at Oregon State University, the answer is a new strain of seaweed they recently patented.

The seaweed looks like translucent red lettuce. It also is a great source of minerals, vitamins, antioxidants and protein, and it grows very quickly. Did we mention it tastes like bacon?

Dulse is a form of edible seaweed that grows wild along the Pacific and Atlantic coastlines.

It's harvested and commonly used by people in dried form as a cooking ingredient or nutritional supplement.

But a product development team at OSU's Food Innovation Center has created new foods with the dulse. Among the most promising foods created were a dulse-based rice cracker, salad dressing and bacon-tasting strips, which are fried like regular bacon to bring out the flavour.

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