But what if there was a way to get that salty, smoky goodness without all the fat, calories and heart-clogging cholesterol? Researchers at Oregon State University say you can with a type of seaweed ...

Dulse became the “superfood that tastes like bacon” overnight, thanks to savvy marketing that went straight for the stomach. Even American palates, used to steak and chicken, could make space for ...

There’s a new seaweed in town, but hold the groans. This one tastes like bacon. Yes, really. It’s been 15 years in the making, but researchers at Oregon State University Hatfield Marine Science Center ...

Food lovers might no longer have to choose between tastiness and healthiness. As will be familiar to anyone miserably chewing through leaf after leaf of kale in a beleaguered attempt to shed a few ...

Taste testing dulse: Seaweed that tastes like bacon? The Oregonian/OregonLive's Molly Harbarger visits Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center to try dulse, marketed as a bacon-flavored ...

Oregon State University researchers have patented a new strain of a succulent red marine algae called dulse that grows extraordinarily quickly, is packed full of protein and has an unusual trait when ...

When most of us think of seafood, it’s usually just the animals – fish, shellfish and other marine creatures – that come to mind. But the sea also offers a wealth of edible plants that can be ...

When I heard rumors of a type of sea vegetable that, when cooked, tasted like bacon, I wanted in. But by the time I reached out to the researchers growing it, they'd already been inundated with ...

Bacon-flavored seaweed is the new kale. Yes, really. Scientists are currently cultivating a marine plant that's packed with more nutrients than the trendy green superfood kale. And it naturally tastes ...

Seaweed has been eaten for thousands of years by people all over the world, and it can be considered a tasty and healthy food item. This is the conclusion from professor Ole G. Mouritsen, Department ...

Grand Manan Island, a part of New Brunswick, produces much of the world supply of dulse, a seaweed harvested from the ocean at low tide. "Rhodymenia palmata is an edible seaweed," explained CBC ...

On an unusually sunny January day, the Port of Garibaldi was bustling with incoming hauls of Dungeness crab and fish. But there was another seafood, more unusual in these parts, swirling in ...