What is wakame?

What is wakame?

Wakame is a plant of the Pterygium family, Undaria pinnatifida. It is a type of algae, also known as sea mustard, wakame, and sea cabbage. It grows on rocks 1-4 meters below the low tide line and is commonly found in coastal provinces such as Shandong, Fujian, and Liaoning.

What does wakame look like?

Undaria is a kind of algae. It is brown and leathery in texture. The plant is about 1-2 meters long and 50-100 centimeters wide. It is shaped like a ribbon, with mucus attached to the surface and spore sacs inside.

How to cook wakame

There are many ways to cook kelp as a vegetable. The most common ones include stir-fried kelp, cold kelp salad, kelp shrimp soup, tofu and clam kelp soup, kelp egg pancake, and kelp meat dumplings.

Tofu, clam and kelp soup : Wash the clams, put them into water to spit out the sand, boil water in a pot, add the tofu and stew for two minutes after the water boils, then add the clams and finally add the soaked kelp, and finally add salt and sesame oil to season.

The efficacy and function of wakame

Wakame not only tastes crispy and refreshing, but is also a very good health food. After consumption, it has many functions such as diuresis and swelling reduction, phlegm elimination and softening, constipation treatment, cardiovascular protection, and cancer prevention.