Seaweed paper is the everyday English name for nori, the dried, roasted sheet of red algae (genus Pyropia) pressed like paper and wrapped around sushi.

Sushi seaweed sheets are the roasted nori a sushi bar wraps around maki and temaki, and grade decides how it rolls, tears, and tastes. Japan

Seaweed sheets are dried, roasted laver (genus Pyropia), sold for sushi and snacking and priced by pack size and grade, not by the sheet. A

Nori seaweed is the dried, pressed sheet of red algae (genus Pyropia), wrapped around sushi and onigiri, graded by color, sheen, and thickness into tiers

The benefits of dried seaweed come down to nutrient density: it packs iodine, calcium, magnesium, and fibre into a food with almost no calories. A

Roasted seaweed flakes, known as aonori, are the bright green finish on a plate of okonomiyaki or takoyaki, added in the last second before serving.