[Aluminum contents in dried and cooked sea vegetables]. 1997

F Matsushima, and S Meshitsuka, and T Nose
Tottori Women's College, Kurayoshi, Japan.

Regarding aluminum contents in sea vegetables, dried hijiki (an edible brown algae), dried wakame (seaweed) and dried konbu (kelp) contained 1.08mg/g, 17.7 to 149 micrograms/g, and 4.23 to 24.5 micrograms/g, of aluminum, respectively. With hijiki, especially, having a high aluminum content. Hijiki reconstituted by water immersion contained 450 to 678 micrograms/g, of aluminum. Thus, aluminum in dried hijiki was decreased by 40 to 66% by water immersion. The immersion water of blanched and salted wakame and fruit-bearing leaf wakame contained 4.67 to 6.92 micrograms and 1.00 microgram of aluminum, respectively. The migration ratio of aluminum was 8 approximately 12% for blanched and salted wakame and was 1% for fruit-bearing leaf wakame. The immersion water of Hidaka konbu contained 16.1 to 21.4 micrograms of aluminum, while that of Rishiri konbu contained 4.79 to 7.36 micrograms of aluminum. Thus, 22 to 57% of aluminum migrated into the konbu immersion water. Aluminum scarcely migrated into the supernatant of the immersion water. Compared with the cold water immersion method, a high aluminum migration ratio was achieved in the heat extraction method. It was estimated that the aluminum intake from reconstituted hijiki (dry weight: 5g) was about 2.2 to 3.4mg, which amounted to 50 to 75% of the daily aluminum intake of a typical Japanese diet.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D000535 Aluminum A metallic element that has the atomic number 13, atomic symbol Al, and atomic weight 26.98. Aluminium,Aluminium-27,Aluminum-27,Aluminium 27,Aluminum 27
D012624 Seaweed Multicellular marine macroalgae including some members of red (RHODOPHYTA), green (CHLOROPHYTA), and brown (PHAEOPHYCEAE) algae. They are widely distributed in the ocean, occurring from the tide level to considerable depths, free-floating (planktonic) or anchored to the substratum (benthic). They lack a specialized vascular system but take up fluids, nutrients, and gases directly from the water. They contain CHLOROPHYLL and are photosynthetic, but some also contain other light-absorbing pigments. Many are of economic importance as FOOD, fertilizer, AGAR, potash, or source of IODINE. Macroalgae

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