Kale is so mainstream, bacon flavored seaweed is the new kale. Scientist are currently cultivating a marine plant that’s packed with more nutrients than the green super food kale. Not to mention, it naturally tastes like bacon. I mean come on who doesn’t like bacon flavored things.

Bacon-flavored crackers. Bacon-flavored salad dressing. These are just two of the savory treats that have been created so far using the domesticated strain of dulse (Palmaria palmata), a kind of red algae, or seaweed, that typically grows in the waters along northern Pacific and Atlantic coastlines.  Dulse is usually harvested in the wild, dried out and then sold for up to $90 a pound, according to researchers at the Oregon State University (OSU) Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport, Oregon, who developed the domesticated strain of the plant.

Chris Langdon, a professor of fisheries at OSU who is leading the seaweed-farming effort, said that he and his colleagues can amp up production of the delicious plant to 100 lbs. (45 kg) a week. Langdon has been growing dulse for 15 years, but he and his fellow researchers only recently patented their novel strain of bacon-flavored seaweed.

More information about how dulse is being cooked up can be found at OSU’s College of Agricultural Science’s online magazine.