Enjoy a light and flavorful Japanese-inspired dish with this wakame seaweed and cucumber salad recipe. This video guides you through creating a refreshing, umami-rich salad that’s perfect as a side ...

I discovered seaweed by accident at a local Japanese market five years ago. What started as a curious purchase turned into a ...

Salted cucumbers, rehydrated wakame seaweed, and plump shrimp are tossed with a refreshing rice vinegar, mirin, and sesame oil dressing. Serve this cucumber salad as a first course or side dish ...

The final installment will feature a salad that uses a “dried food of the sea,” wakame seaweed. In Japan, a nation surrounded by the sea, seaweed has been part of the diet since ancient times.

A type of kelp, wakame is a source of potassium and magnesium as well as iodine (key for thyroid health). On the sustainability front, “kelp forests restore aquaculture and help preserve marine ...

Seaweed is a popular ingredient in Asian cuisines, but many of us only know it as the wrap for sushi rolls or the perforated sheets of keto-friendly snacks. Umami-rich, highly nutritious and with ...

Seaweed varieties like nori, kelp, and wakame are excellent natural sources of iodine. Consuming iodine-rich foods helps maintain hormonal balance and prevent deficiencies that can lead to thyroid ...

The wakame seaweed harvest has started in the sea near Akita Prefecture and other areas. On February 23, a harvesting event was held in the city of Oga. About 40 people, including elementary ...

Seaweed farmers in the wildfire-stricken city of Ofunato in northeastern Japan's Iwate Prefecture have begun harvesting cultivated wakame for the first time this season. Offloading of the local ...

The exhibit includes popular Hello Kitty characters dressed up as 32 types of algae, including nori seaweed, “wakame” seaweed and “marimo” spherical moss. A “Mars rock,” about the size ...

In Olbia, Nadia meets chef Stefano Azara, the owner of Lo Squalo restaurant, to cook up a vegan parmigiana and fishless patties that taste akin to wakame seaweed.