Joo-Jeon Stone Seaweed Introduction

Ulsan residents has lived eating clean mountain vegetables and seaweeds produced in the clean sea area where deep valleys and curves are developed. Joojeon Stone Seaweed is produced at the neck of the rapids, which has a rapid ocean current, where seaweeds touch the edge of the rock, so that it has a special taste with its chewy property even after boiling.
Joojeon Stone Seaweed contains high quality minerals, lamina acid, algin acid, especially algin acid absorbs heavy metals, agricultural chemicals, and carcinogenic substances contained in the human body and has the 'sponge effect' that removes these substances.
Also,iodine contained much in Stone Seaweed is the essential ingredient to produce thyroid hormone, and activates the heart and blood vessels, controls one's temperature, and promotes a healthy metabolism. Accordingly, the lack of iodine may cause corpulence. And iodine contained in Stone Seaweed has an effect in preventing loss of hair.
Stone Seaweed is a strong alkaline food that neutralizes the acid foods and has an excellent effect in improving one's physical constitution and preventing aging. It is proved to have an excellent effect in cancer prevention.

Classification

- 1 year old seaweed of seaweed department of brown alga plant.
- It is a thallus that has dark brown colored body and has a distinct shape between root, stem and leaf. It is a favorite food used regularly long ago because it grows all over the Korean coast, so that it is close to our life. It is known that it was exported to China from Korea Dynasty Period, and recently with the advanced technology the processed foodstuff is exported to Japan increasing the income of fishermen.

Features

- Foliation of plant is eggshape and lanceolate, and its body length is 1-1.5m, and its width is about 50 cm with a big well-developed mid rib
- Leaf : It is a pinnation which is split and has lots of hair on the skin, so it may look like a scattered dots with a naked eye. The mid rib of foliation connects to the stem and is flat, and in basal part a sporophyl called a seaweed ear is formed where spore forms.
- Stem : It has a flattened egg shape, and the root in basal part has dichotomous shape which splits many times to have a complex twisted shape. The growing point of thallus is at the joint of stems and leave, so stem does intercalary growth with it.
- Dermal layer : The skin of thallus is very slimy because the mucous gland changed from epithermal cell secretes phlegmatic temperament.

History

In the instruction book, 'the Beginning of Study' written in the time of Tang, it is written that "Watching a mother whale who delivered a baby whale eat seaweed to cure her injury, the people in Korea dynasty period began to let women in childbed eat seaweed", so we come to know that it dates back to ancient times.

Virtues of Joojeon stone seaweed

Turban shell is a high protein food which contains minerals such as calcium, iron and phosphorus, and vitamin A , and it is high nutrition-low cost food such as an abalone. Also it contains necessary amino acid such as algin, lysine, so that it has savory taste with a sweet ingredient, glycogen. From the oriental medical book, the boiling water with turban shell makes one's spirit refresh, and helps one's memory, and also it has a excellent effect in the prevention of obesity and high blood pressure.
From ancient times, people had medicinal foods using the turban shell such as sliced raw turban shell for emblyopia and turban shell soup for hardening of the arteries. In Jeju island there is an old story that a person suffered from a bad sickness got his appetite after having the turban shell soup. Especially, Japan, one of the long life countries, imports all turban shell for a favorite food.