Scientists have created bacon-flavoured seaweed and our lives are complete

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

Surely nothing.. that sounds too good to be true! 

WRONG.

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.

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.

The bad news? There are no commercial operations that grow dulse for human consumption in the U.S. and chefs say fresh, high-quality seaweed is hard to come by. So, it's going to be a loooong time before we can even THINK about having it in NZ. 

Oh well, dreams are free.

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