Cook with Wakame
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About
Wakame is a sea vegetable, or edible seaweed. It has a subtly sweet flavour and is most often served in soups and salads. Sea-farmers have grown wakame in Japan from the Nara period. It has been nominated as among 100 of the world's worst invasive species according to the Global Invasive Species Database.
Aroma profile
Derived from flavor compounds · verified measured labels + GNN ensemble predictions
Flavor compounds
60 compounds identified — FoodAtlas / FooDB verified
Molecular pairings
Pairs well with — computed from shared flavor compounds