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For those who know me, you already know, Sueño has cancer, and right now, I'm trying Fitoteraphy, which is the fancy way to say a diet with food known to help a particular ailment. And seaweed came up. Now, I know seaweed is dangerous for its high levels of iodine, even for a human being, so I'm letting it simmer in boiling water for 20+ minutes to be sure to remove all of it.
The remaining problem is with salt. The dried seaweed products all have remnant of sea water, so: high levels too. Heating won't help, and if I distilled the water, well, I'd only get the water, and the seaweed (that's more important here) would still be salty.
So, I know there is cat food with seaweed, but it mostly seems to be "seaweed derived calcium", when what I need the algae for is the "Fucoidan" in it, not the bone.
So, 1- do you know of ways to prepare the seaweed that's safe for cat consumption? 2- Ways to remove salt from water (maybe there's something that absorbs salt? I'm trying uncooked rice as we speak.) 3-Do you know of seaweed-based catfood that has any Fucoidan, or if the aformentioned "derived calcium" product that has it?
Just how do you give seaweed to cats, in a nutshell.
The remaining problem is with salt. The dried seaweed products all have remnant of sea water, so: high levels too. Heating won't help, and if I distilled the water, well, I'd only get the water, and the seaweed (that's more important here) would still be salty.
So, I know there is cat food with seaweed, but it mostly seems to be "seaweed derived calcium", when what I need the algae for is the "Fucoidan" in it, not the bone.
So, 1- do you know of ways to prepare the seaweed that's safe for cat consumption? 2- Ways to remove salt from water (maybe there's something that absorbs salt? I'm trying uncooked rice as we speak.) 3-Do you know of seaweed-based catfood that has any Fucoidan, or if the aformentioned "derived calcium" product that has it?
Just how do you give seaweed to cats, in a nutshell.