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Swedish students taste sea squirt as sustainable food

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  • Students in Söderbärke tasted sea squirt mince as a sustainable food option.
  • The sea squirt is farmed in Sweden and has a low climate impact.
  • A professor says it represents future food and cleans the sea.

Students at Kyrkskolan in Söderbärke, Sweden, tasted a mince made from ciona, a type of sea squirt, as part of the school's sustainability work. Several students were skeptical about the tasting. The sea squirt can be found naturally along the west coasts of Sweden and Norway and is also farmed in places like Stenungssund.

Anders Kiessling, a professor of aquaculture at SLU in Uppsala, said this is part of the future of food and that we must start farming in water. The sea squirt has a low climate footprint as it requires no feed or farmland and cleans the sea. It contains healthy proteins and fats.

this is part of the future of food and that we must start farming in water

Anders Kiessling, professor of aquaculture at SLU in Uppsala

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