Medical Xpress publishes profile on human nutrition master’s student
Medical Xpress published a University of Maine profile on Chantel Banus, a second-year master’s student in human nutrition. Banus, of Ashby, Massachusetts, is working to determine the factors that influence consumer purchase of seaweed products in the United States. She is conducting a survey to see what consumers are looking for in seaweed products and what influences their decision to purchase them. Banus wants to inform Maine seaweed farmers and aquaculture industry members in order to better market their products. “Although seaweed, also known as macroalgae, has long been wild-harvested along the Maine coast, several species now form an emerging aquaculture industry in the state,” she said.