Seaweed grows quickly, contains many vitamins and minerals, and produces up to 11 times the biomass of wheat and corn.View this interactive chart on Fortune.com “We have been slow to adopt seaweed farming,” says Paul Dobbins, director of seaweed and shellfish farming for WWF U.S., “in part because there needs to be a market for it.” ‘A massive carbon sink’ Numerous recent studies have highlighted seaweed as one of the most viable solutions to climate change, including the recent September study which estimated that kelp may take up as much carbon as the Amazon rain forest.“Seaweed has all the features required to be classified as a blue carbon habitat and a massive carbon sink,” write the authors of a study published in May in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.“Seaweed farming could contribute to carbon sequestration in the deep sea, but there are many ‘buts,’” cautions Schery Umanzor, assistant professor of aquaculture at University of Alaska Fairbanks.“In brief, seaweeds may be one of the hundreds of strategies we need to mitigate climate change.” Alongside acting as a natural carbon sink and a nutritious snack, kelp has also been utilized in some more innovative experiments."