How nutritious is seaweed salad?

Natural Health, Dec, 2001

ALTHOUGH SEAWEED IS GOOD FOR YOU, the seaweed salad you get at a sushi restaurant isn't health food. Its main ingredient is wakame, which has plenty of calcium, iron, niacin, and thiamine. But some other ingredients dilute the salad's nutritional profile while enhancing its taste. The other ingredients are agar, sesame oil, cloud ear mushrooms, sesame seeds, distilled vinegar, high-fructose corn syrup, sugar, salt, red pepper flakes, kelp extract, and yellow and blue food coloring.

A serving just shy of three ounces has 100 calories, 1 g of protein, 5 g of fat, a whopping 1,200 mg of sodium, 11 g sugar, only about 70 mg of calcium, and less than 1 mg of iron.