we got seaweed, fish, sharks, dolphins, whales, coral, some other species of underwater plants, and other artificial flavors, and to top it off we need salt.
The ocean is a soup.
Agreed
The ocean is neither a soup nor a stew in the culinary sense. While it contains various dissolved substances and marine life, it's not prepared or consumed like a traditional soup or stew. The ocean is more accurately described as a vast body of saltwater with a complex ecosystem