Know SEAWEED

Know SEAWEED

Garden plants of Malaysia consists of four classes, namely Rhodophyceae (red seaweed), Phaeophyceae (brown seaweed), Chlorophyceae (green seaweed), and Cyanophyceae (seaweed green-blue). The division is based on the pigment dipunyanya. When viewed from the size, consisting of water and Microscopic makroskopik. Makroskopik this is the algae that we know as seaweed. Seaweed is known first by the Chinese approximately 2,700 years BC. In the past, the seaweed used for vegetables and medicines. In the year 65 BC, Roman nations to use as a raw material for cosmetics. However, from time to time knowledge of the seaweed is growing.

Spain, France, and England made the seaweed as a raw material for making glass, while Ireland, Norway, and Scotlandia as fertilizer plants. Seaweed has long known and used, but a new publication started in the 17th century by Japan and China. Japan and China is a nation that is advanced in the field of seaweed, both the production and utilization of seaweed. When the utilization of seaweed in Indonesia is not known. Only the nation at the time the Portuguese came to Indonesia about 1,292 years, seaweed has been used as a vegetable.

Delivery of seaweed abroad also not be confirmed. From notes that there are only said that before World War II Indonesia has been exporting seaweed to the United States, Denmark and France. Seaweed is exported from the type of Gracilaria. However, until now a lot of seaweed that is asked of Eucheuma sp, Gracilaria sp, and Gelidium sp.

source: Hety Indriani Ami Sumiarsih, 1991