Wakame seaweed

Undaria pinnatifida

Flower name
Wakame seaweed
Scientific name
Undaria pinnatifida
AliasWakame seaweed, 若布
Place of originJapan and Korea
Place of floweringSeashore
Flowering season

What is Wakame seaweed

Wakame is not a flower that blooms on land, but it is a sea plant that is often eaten in Japan, so it is treated here as well.

Wakame is a seaweed belonging to the brown algae family. Therefore, it is brown in color in the sea. Most people's image of raw wakame is that it is green, but wakame does not turn green until it is heated. Wakame sold in stores as "raw wakame" has already been heated, so it is not really called "raw wakame. The correct term is "wakame that has been soaked in hot water. Please watch this video.

Kagiken Video Wakame (wakame seaweed) Raw wakame is originally brown in color. Green wakame is not raw wakame because it has been soaked in hot water.

Wakame seaweed (scientific name: Undaria pinnatifida) is a native of Japan and Korea, it is a seaweed of the family Alariaceae. Stick to the rocks of the sea and let the red-brown elongated leaves drift in the sea. When it is alive, it turns reddish brown, and when it gets boiled it turns into bright green. It is disliked in foreign countries, and the only countries to be edible are Japan and Korea. It has a lot of vegetable fiber, has low calorie, has the effect of making the blood smooth, it helps prevent myocardial infarction and arteriosclerosis. Although the cold season of February is natural season, there are only about 10% of the shipment amount of all seaweeds, and most of them are aquaculture goods and are circulating all year around the year. We mainly eat it with seaweed salad, vinegared thing, miso soup. Abalone (abalone) etc are also feeding. Recently, there is a report that duckwheat mixed in Japanese and Korean boats and tanks breeded in the Australian coastal omas and lobster aquaculture rocks and suffocated.

Common name: Wakame seaweed, Scientific name: Undaria pinnatifida, aka:Wakame, distribution: Hokkaido to Kyushu of Japan , Korean Peninsula, Total length: 200 cm, Color: red brown (live), bright green (after boiling), season: February, predator: abalone, human.