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Sargassum polycystum (P)

Used as food in India, China, Malaysia, Thailand, Moluccas, and Indonesia, eaten raw with lemon juice after being washed. Sometimes the seaweeds are first cooked with coconut milk. Used in vegetable soup and to make sweetened jellies. The indigenous of Amboina (Indonesia) preserve the seaweeds smoke-dried. Also used in Caribbean Is as food.