DULSE POWDER
Product No. P0420
Dulse, or Palmaria palmata (Linnaeus) Kuntze, also called dillisk, dilsk, red dulse, sea lettuce flakes or creathnach, is a red algae. It grows on the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It is a well-known snack food, and in Iceland, where it is known as söl, it has been an important source of fibre throughout the centuries. The earliest record of this species is of St Columba's monks harvesting it 1,400 years ago.
Dulse grows attached by means of disks or rhizomes to the stipes of Laminaria or to rocks from June to September. It has a short stipe, the fronds are variable and vary in colour from deep-rose to reddish-purple and they are quite leathery in texture. The flat foliose blade gradually expands and divides into broad segments ranging in size to 50 cm long and 30 - 8 cm in width which can bear flat wedge-shaped proliferations from the edge.
Dulse is a good source of minerals and vitamins, contains all trace elements needed by humans, and has a high protein content; found in dulse is calcium potassium, magnesium, iron, iodine, manganese, copper, chromium, zinc, and vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, C and E.
Dulse is commonly used in Ireland, Iceland, Atlantic Canada and the Northeast United States both as food and medicine. In Ballycastle, Northern Ireland it is traditionally sold at the Ould Lammas Fair. It is particularly popular along the Causeway Coast.
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