Prabhasankar, Ganesan, and Bhaskar (2009a) developed pasta
with Indian brown seaweed (S. marginatum) as an ingredient to
improve the biofunctional and nutritional qualities. Different levels of
seaweed (1.0, 2.5, and 5.0%; w/w) were substituted to obtain
seaweed-incorporated pasta and pasta without seaweed was used
as control. Microstructure studies revealed that the incorporation of
seaweed up to 2.5% enhanced gluten network of pasta.