TaxonomyPhaeophyceae
old name
Sargassum mertensii
new name
Sargassum fulvellum
USE: Sargassum mertensii
REFERENCES: Used as food in main dishes, and traditional medicine, in Japan and Korea. When the plant is young it is eaten in soup or with soy-bean sauce. S. fulvellum is a brown seaweed of the Sargassaceae family which has been demonstrated to exhibit antipyretic, analgesic, antiedema, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antitumor, neuroprotective, anticoagulative, anti-inflammatory, and hepatoprotective activities
