Wakame is wakame.

Wakame belongs to the phylum Phaeophyta, Phaeozoa, Laminales, Pterophyceae, and the genus Undaria. It is a seaweed plant with green leaves with pinnate lobes. The leaves are thinner than kelp. It looks like a big sunflower fan or a skirt, so it is named after it.

Undaria pinnatifida was called dish 虙虙 in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Song Dynasty of my country, and the pronunciation became wakame. There are two types: light dry and salty dry. Wakame is a seaweed of the brown algae plant Laminariaceae and is known as a sea vegetable.

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Wakame nutritional content: Wakame contains a variety of nutrients. According to preliminary analysis, every 100 grams of dry product contains 11.6g of crude protein and 0.32g of refined fat. , 37.81g of sugar, 18.93g of ash, and a variety of vitamins. The crude protein content is higher than that of kelp, and its taste is also higher than that of kelp. Wakame is not only an edible economic brown algae, but also can be used as a raw material for comprehensive utilization of alginic acid.

Wakame, also known as a smart dish, a beauty dish, a healthy dish, and a green sea cucumber, is a natural treasure house of trace elements and minerals, containing more than a dozen essential amino acids, calcium, iodine, and zinc. , selenium, folic acid and vitamins A, B, C and other minerals.

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