The secret ingredient is sodium alginate, the exact same seaweed-derived biopolymer that makes ice cream creamy and gives popping boba its snap ... seaweed extract to raw earth dug from a Colorado quarry.
Seaweed across Palm Beach County in South Florida, video ... Sargassum (it is seaweed so "sargassum seaweed" is redundant) arrives in huge blooms, making it uncomfortable to swim without having the reddish-brown strands sticking to our bodies.
A record amount of sargassum seaweed has washed ashore on Florida beaches, bringing with it an unpleasant smell. Cristian Benavides shows how it's impacting coastal communities ... .
Seaweed from the shores of the Outer Hebrides will be helping ease the muscle aches and calm the nerves of athletes and golf pros in Scotland this summer ....
Sargassum, that stinky brown heap of rotting seaweed, is piling up again at Palm Beach County beaches ... On June 15, 2026, our Palm Beach Post photographer, Thomas Cordy, captured mounds of seaweed on beaches in Palm Beach County.