Conservation des laminaires apres sechage a tres hautes temperatures.

Laminaria digitata is the only brown alga used in the French alginate industry. Air-dried and flash-dried (in a current of air at 200 to 850 degree C) algae were compared. Quality was assessed viscometrically and the results expressed graphically. Quality after drying and keeping properties were found better in flash-dried algae and the method was shown to be the cheapest of methods currently available.