Seaweeds offer a wide range of concentrated micro-nutrients, minerals and trace elements, many of which are no longer available from depleted soils, but are abundant in the ocean. Remineralising your body can have a dramatic positive impact on your health.

Seaweeds offer a range of delicious, plant-based umami flavours. Each type of sea vegetable is unique – just as a blueberry and grape whilst both fruits, have distinct flavours from each other.

Growing and eating seaweeds leaves a far lighter footprint on the planet than land based food crops do. They don’t require additional water, nor added artificial fertilisers,  as they absorb what they need from the ocean and bask in sunlight to make food.

Seaweeds pack a nutritional punch!  Because of the way they absorb them, and the availability in the ocean, seaweeds offer denser concentrations of a range of micronutrients and of minerals such as iodine, potassium, magnesium, and iron than many land plants do.  

Brown seaweeds have unique compounds not found in the other colour groups, such as fucoidan - which has many beneficial properties.  Seaweeds also offer fatty acids in favourable ratios and are a low-fat, low-calorie food.  So, eat the rainbow of sea vegetable colours.

Iodine is an essential mineral that is used by the thyroid gland to make thyroid hormones which control many functions in the body ~ including growth and development. Your body does not produce iodine so it needs to be consumed in your food.

Soil based plants generally do not contain iodine, and a deficiency means the body cannot produce enough thyroid hormones.

Because seaweeds naturally clean their environment, they will absorb contaminants, pollutants, and heavy metals from the area around them. 

Pacific Harvest has  strong relationships with harvesters operating in clean areas with good current flow, so we naturally select clean seaweeds.

However, whether our seaweeds are local or imported, we test for contaminants according to the requirements in the ANZ Food Code, so you can always trust what you’re buying.

Pacific Harvest proudly offers a wide range of seaweeds. Seaweeds, like land plants, grow in different environments – different latitudes, depths. Some prefer shallow water, others depth, some prefer rocky shorelines.

As a result, we work with harvesters from around the world to stock a range of seaweeds which grow locally and abroad. Some popular seaweeds in Australasia only grow in the northern hemisphere so we import where required. All seaweeds we offer in our range have been tested in accordance with the ANZ Food Code.