SUSWEED - Sustainable use of marine and industrial waters to unlock the potential of seaweeds as a future food source
Short description
Cultivated macroalgae represent a promising opportunity to feed a growing global population - without further straining the availability of clean fresh water. No fertiliser is required; instead, seaweed farming has a net uptake of dissolved nutrients and thus counteracts eutrophication.
The goal of the SUSWEED project is to utilise the great potential of Swedish seaweed as a future sustainable food source. This is achieved through new cultivation techniques for sea lettuce (Ulva fenestrata) and dulse (Palmaria palmata) in the sea, but also as part of a system where process water from the food industry is purified from nutrients.
Harvested seaweed will be processed into nutritious and safe raw materials that can be used in new, tasty food products.
News and events
(10/6 -24) Royal Award to Kristoffer Stedt
Our researcher Kristoffer Stedt has been awarded a scholarship from the King Carl XVI Gustaf Foundation's 50-year fund for science, technology and the environment for his research into new methods for growing algae. On June 10, he received the award.
Read news item here: Royal grant for research about algae as a future protein source
(28/8 -24) SUSWEED researcher Kristoffer Stedt appears on the TV programme ‘Forskarna’
In the episode ‘Could algae be the food of the future and save the climate at the same time?’, Kristoffer Stedt is interviewed about seaweed research. Chef Frida Ronge also prepares an seaweed pesto.
Watch the full programme here on SVT Play.
Project members
Krishan Kent, Marenor Seafood AB
Barbro Kollander, Swedish Food Agency
Martin Kuhlin, Sweden Pelagic
Murat Mirata, Department of Management and Engineering (IEI), Linköping University
Susanne Lindegarth, Department of marine sciences, University of Gothenburg
Göran Nylund, Nordic Seafarm
Henrik Pavia, Department of marine sciences, University of Gothenburg
Ilia Rodushkin, ALS Scandinavia AB, Luleå
Kristoffer Stedt, Department of marine sciences, University of Gothenburg
Gunilla Toth, Department of marine sciences, University of Gothenburg
Ingrid Undeland, Department for life sciences, LIFE, Chalmers University of Technology
More information – Seaweeds as a future food source
Research group
