{"id":7415,"date":"2018-06-20T07:18:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T07:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7415"},"modified":"2018-06-20T07:18:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T07:18:54","slug":"seaweed-helps-qingdaos-marine-economy-stay-afloat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/seaweed-helps-qingdaos-marine-economy-stay-afloat.html","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed helps Qingdao\u2019s marine economy stay afloat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s appetite for the &#8220;grass of the sea&#8221; dates as far back as the sixth century, and as a rich source of calcium, iodine, iron and vitamins A, C, B and E, seaweeds have cemented their place as an invaluable ingredient in kitchens and food factories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">Estimates by market research firm Global Market Insights put the per capita consumption of seaweed in China at up to 2.5 kilograms annually \u2013 one of the highest in the world.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5634 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text\">The acquired taste for the aquatic plant has placed China at the heart of a multi-billion-dollar industry, whose growth was boosted thanks to a burgeoning global demand as more health-conscious people introduce algae to their diets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/3d3d774d3559444f77457a6333566d54\/share_p.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s appetite for the &#8220;grass of the sea&#8221; dates as far back as the sixth century, and as a rich source of calcium, iodine, iron and vitamins A, C, B and E, seaweeds have cemented their place as an invaluable ingredient in kitchens and food factories. Estimates by market research firm Global Market Insights put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254,59],"tags":[660,568],"class_list":["post-7415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-for-food","category-seaweed","tag-algae-for-food","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7416,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7415\/revisions\/7416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}