Overview

The modern society is having a hard time to promote the significance of our health, regardless of the dramatic development in medical sciences and advancement in material civilization. Due to chronic stress caused by meat-oriented diet and endless competition, many people experience adultery diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiac disorders, resulting in encouraging people to keep healthy life by health-related campaigns, for examples, “less-sodium consumption campaign” and “fighting with obesity campaign”.
People in modern society feel sick of artificial materials contained in food and prefer vegetarian diet and organic processed food. As a result, people now look for healthy agricultural/marine products such as seaweed, and become more interested in hamcho, which contains various minerals and bioactive substances while living at the environment with high level of salt concentration

Dasarang (C.E.O: Dong Heum Yang, the hamcho master) Co., Ltd. confidently suggests hamcho as one of the solutions for international health campaign, “less sodium” and “fighting with the obesity”. Here, we are going to present the history of hamcho and introduce Dasarang hamcho in order to commercialize and globalize hamcho.

What is Hamcho? (Saliconia Herbacea L.)

Hamcho is an annual herbaceous plant that grows at salty land around salt field and inland mudflat (the intersection of sea water and fresh water. Its scientific name is called Saliconia herbacea L.

Hamcho eats ingredients dissolved in sea water or mudflats, making its taste salty. There are many stem nodes and the branch splits once or twice. It is not hard to distinguish leaves and branches. The stem nodes are relatively thick and plump. Hamcho germinates in the spring (middle of March~ early April) and grows in green during the summer.

Very tiny white flowers bloom during July – August. Going through early August, it starts bearing fruits. Green hamcho, then, starts turning into yellow and red. In the middle of October, eventually, it turns into complete red color, making shoreline looks beautiful and colorful.

During this season, water in hamcho starts to evaporate. The entire leaves are packed with round and flat seeds. Then, it comes down to the ground and spreads away with wind. Hamcho, which is an annual herbaceous plant, requires certain level of salt concentration in order to survive.
As described, hamcho inhabits at the environment with high level of salt-concentration, which generally is not suitable environment for other plants. Thus, hamcho is a natural recourse that contains healthy and useful elements and minerals within, which are collected while adapting to salt-stress.