Do you need to cook the shredded kelp before mixing it with cold water?

Shredded kelp should be boiled in water.

The kelp should be boiled in water to cook the kelp before it is served cold. Raw kelp can be eaten, but not too much, because uncooked shredded kelp, consumption will lead to discomfort. There is no history of wild or artificially farmed kelp in our ancient times. China's large-scale farming of kelp is a Japanese scholar Ozeki Yojiro 1930 first introduced from Japan to Dalian, then he began to test kelp raft farming in Dalian, China's kelp farming from Dalian.

Kelp, commonly known as seaweed, is a kind of low-temperature seawater in the growth of large marine brown algae plants, long and narrow leaves were banded, fresh kelp was olive brown, shiny. Kelp blade like a broadband, the tip of the narrowing, generally 2 to 5 meters long, 20 to 30 centimeters wide (in the seabed growth of kelp smaller, 1 to 2 meters long, 15 to 20 centimeters wide).

Properties

Traditional processing of kelp is more primitive and backward, mainly natural sun-drying, with more sediment, poor quality, inconvenient to eat, and bring a greater impact on sales. Dehydration of fresh kelp is based on fresh kelp as raw material, after washing, hot blanching, shredding, drying and other processes to deal with refined. Cutting, drying and other processes refined kelp small packaged products.

Selected fresh kelp should be of good quality, suitable maturity, tender, not contaminated by diesel fuel and other contaminants, and uniform size. Selected raw materials should not be combined spore body, or less spore body, the appearance of brown, no pests and diseases, the requirements of fresh kelp harvesting and production and processing closely linked to the timely transportation, light loading and unloading, to avoid overlapping pressure, to ensure that the raw materials intact. If found to have been damaged and decayed kelp should be removed.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Shredded Kelp