Mozuku is a collective term for various types of Japanese brown algae from the family

Chordariaceae Chordariaceae is a family of brown algae. Members of this family are may be filamentous, crustose with fused cells at the base, or they may be terete and differentiated into a central medulla and an outer photosynthetic cortex. They have a spo ...

, which are used as food. These include ito-mozuku ('' Nemacystus decipiens''), Okinawa mozuku (''

Cladosiphon okamuranus is a type of edible seaweed in the genus ''Cladosiphon'', naturally found in Okinawa, Japan. Most mozuku is now farmed by locals, and sold to processing factories. The main use of mozuku is as food, and as a source of one type of sulfated po ...

''), ishi-mozuku ('' Sphaerotrichia divaricata'') and futo mozuku ('' Tinocladia crassa''). Occasionally the aquatic flowering plant '' Hydrilla verticillata'' is referred to as mozuku.Kizuku Kadena, Makoto Tomori, Masahiko Iha, Takeaki Nagamine
Absorption Study of Mozuku Fucoidan in Japanese Volunteers
in: ''Marine drugs'', Juni/Juli 2018.

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