Are you prone to a snack or two a day? Are they unhealthy and delicious, or healthy and delicious? Read on to find out more about the latter!
Snacking in the UK is very popular with 93% of adults admitted to snacking over a two-week period and 63% of these snack once or more between meals a day.
57% of snackers say ‘I am trying to eat less snacks for health reasons (e.g. to reduce calories)’[i].
This shows that there is a market for healthy snacks. On a global scale the retail value growth of savoury snacks are set to overtake confectionary. Furthermore Euromonitor predicted that savoury snacks will grow by 5%, and confectionary only be 3.6% by the end of 2017.
This trend is followed by Blogger Ella Mills, who launched Deliciously Ella Energy Balls in 2016. Suitable for vegans they are dairy, and gluten free, as they use nuts along with only 6 other ingredients in the balls.
Burt’s Crisps have also expanded their healthy snack range by adding Quinoa Crinkles in January 2017. Some examples of health snacks are: nuts; seeds; bars or biscuits; trail mixes; and pulses.
Why Pulses?
Like seaweed, pulses are a powerful superfood and furthermore have been an essential part of the human diet for centuries. A pulse is an edible seed of a plant from the legume family, some examples are: baked beans; lentils; chickpeas; broad beans; garden peas; edamame beans; and kidney beans.
Healthy, nutritious and easy to cook with.
Also growing pulses promotes sustainable agriculture, indirectly reduce Greenhouse gases, and use less water to grow than other crops.
They also increase soil health and fertility as they have nitrogen-fixing properties. They are good for weight loss as they are low in fat and digest slowly in the body – leaving you fuller for longer.
Ample evidence to show that consumption of pulses can help prevent diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Why Seaweed Snacks?
As a highly sustainable resource, seaweed requires no land, freshwater or fertilizer to grow. In addition some types of seaweed are believed to grow up to 2 feet per day!
Seaweed can be used to replace salt, enhance nutrition and is naturally rich in Iodine (EU Approved Health Claim).
In conclusion, seaweed can have exceptional flavour, be used for shelf-life extension, offer health benefits, and has the sustainability potential to feed everyone. Research shows, it may be able to help manage weight and blood sugar levels, and improve the quality if your hair and skin.
Looking for Healthy Seaweed Snacks?
If you’re looking for a healthy snack combining pulses and seaweed – seaweed snacks? Yet look no further…
Smoked Seaweed & Bean Baked Snack – Waitrose
Waitrose produce a delicious bean baked snack using Seaweed & Co.’s superb naturally oak smoked seaweed, edamame beans and broad beans.
Seasoned Corn and Smokey Seaweed Edamame – The Food Doctor
The Food Doctor has created this amazing Corn and Edamame Bean snack using Seaweed & Co.’s superb naturally oak smoked seaweed.
At Seaweed & Co. we harvest our wild Seaweed from the pristine seas around the Scottish Outer Hebrides.
Our Seaweed is collected using specialist harvesting vessels under exclusive harvesting rights from the Crown Estate (the Queen herself)! Where Patent Pending processing systems are used to allow the maximum amount of health benefits in every batch of Seaweed.
If you would like more information on our seaweed or what we do, and learn more about health seaweed snacks, please contact Seaweed & Co. or Doctor Seaweed today!
[i] (Mintel, Consumer Snacking -UK- March 2017).