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Caulerpa racemosa (C)

Caulerpa species are eaten raw or cooked in the Caribbean and Central America, Hawaii, Tonga and Cook Is. Eat fresh on bread, dalo, yam or breadfruit. Use in salads or cook in coconut milk. The aboriginal Yemei, tribe on Taiwan’s Hungt’ou Hsii (Lanyu Is), use this alga as a delicacy by frying it in pork fat or peanut oil and then mincing and eating it. Considered a delicacy in the Philippines and is consumed in salads.