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In recent years, seaweed may have gained a reputation for being a superfood, but new research suggests our European ancestors ate the nutrient-rich plant for thousands of years.
Seaweed has developed a reputation in more recent times as a "superfood" .
There are about 10,000 different species of seaweeds around the world today, but only 145 species are regularly consumed.
The researchers hope their study will highlight the potential for including more seaweeds and other local freshwater plants in our diets today.
Confraternities have a long history within Catholicism, dating back to the Early Middle Ages, as pious laymen formed associations in Constantinople and Alexandria.