name: Purple Laver

flavor_db_name_variants: purple laver

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Purple laver

id: 549

name_scientific: Porphyra laciniata

description: Porphyra is a cold water seaweed that grows in cold shallow sea water. More specifically, it is a foliose red algal genus of laver, comprising approximately 70 species. It grows in the intertidal zone, typically between the upper intertidal zone and the splash zone in cold waters of temperate oceans. In East Asia, it is used to produce the sea vegetable products nori (in Japan) and gim (in Korea). There are considered to be 60 to 70 species of Porphyra worldwide and seven in the British Isles.

itis_id: null

wikipedia_id: Porphyra

picture_file_name: 563.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 5291

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:44:05.000Z

legacy_id: 590

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Seaweed

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:48.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:27.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: null

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00549