Seaweed is a generic term for all types of marine algae. Most of the seaweeds contain minerals, vitamins, proteins, sulfated polysaccharides, EPA, and low molecular weight sodium alginate. There are more than 2,000 of discovered kinds of seaweed...

It appears that the first reported research in Japan on anti-tumor substances in seaweed came in the middle of 1970. The extracts referred to here are substances obtained through fractionation by means of organic solvents, gel filtration, etc. of...