Eden Instant Wakame Flakes, Sea Vegetable 30g

Description

Benefits & Features

• Non-GMO
• Gluten-free
• Low sodium
• Fat free

Eden Instant Wakame Flakes are cultivated in the Naruto Strait between the Shikoku and Awaji Islands. Powerful tidal currents and whirlpools between the Inland Japan Sea and the Pacific Ocean create exceptional characteristics. Naruto wakame is renowned for its rich flavor, beautiful green color, thickness, and crisp yet soft texture.

This wakame is hand harvested by farmers from February to April, taken ashore, and sun-dried. To make Eden Instant Wakame Flakes, dry wakame is washed and then simmered in salt water for about thirty seconds to replicate the method used for centuries of washing it in sea water. This turns the wakame from brown to green. After simmering it is washed in ice water removing the salt. The leaves are trimmed to remove its tough main rib, and the rough leaf tips. After cutting it is rinsed again in sea water followed by fresh water before a thorough visual and mechanical inspection. As it air-dries the tiny curls of dried wakame are formed. None of these steps reduce its nutrient content. The washing, trimming, and cleaning processes create a more instantly usable wakame that is quick, versatile, and easy. No more kitchen washing, soaking, or trimming. Eden Wakame Flakes are an ancient health food, extremely important today, and low in sodium.

Eden Instant Wakame Flakes are low in sodium. They contain no fat or calories. Wakame is a source of iodine and was traditionally an important food for the prevention of goiter. Like kombu and other brown algae sea vegetables wakame contains a sweet amino acid that is a flavor enhancer and softening agent when cooked with other foods, glutamine. Its alginic acid, a polysaccharide similar to pectin found in land plants, protects the plant from bacteria and fungi. Research conducted at McGill University in Montréal demonstrated that 'alginic acid binds with heavy metals in the body, from all sources, renders them insoluble and causes them to be eliminated.

Package Size: 1.06 oz, 30 g

Ingredients

Wakame (Undaria pinnatifida).

Nutrition Facts

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