Frozen chuka seaweed salad, hiyashi wakame

Frozen chuka seaweed salad, hiyashi wakame

We have been exporting Frozen seaweed- wakame stem cut salted for more than 10 years. Our customers are

from Japan, Thailand, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine etc. Good quality and favorable price are interesting to our old

and new customers.

Good quality: green color, high swelling, tender, filamentous 

Frozen wakame stem cut salted for Seaweed Salad

Salted wakame stem cut (undaria pinnatifida) is used as raw of seaweed salad (chuka wamake) Wakame,

Undaria pinnatifida, is a sea vegetable, or edible seaweed, that has been nominated as among 100 of the world's

worst invasive species, according to the Global Invasive Species Database. In Japan it is most widely used in

miso soup. 

History as food:

In 1867 the word "wakame" first appeared in an English-language publication, A Japanese and English Dictionary,

by James C. Hepburn. 
Starting in the 1960s, the word "wakame" started to be used widely in the United States, and the product 

(imported in dried form from Japan) became widely available at natural food stores and Asian-American grocery

stores, due to the influence of the macrobiotic movement, and in the 1970s with the growing number of Japanese

restaurants and sushi bars.

Wakame fronds are green and have a subtly sweet flavour and slippery texture. The leaves should be cut into

small pieces as they will expand during cooking. 

In China, it is called qundaicai. 
In Korea, it is called miyeok and used in salads or soup. 
In French, it is called "fougere des mers". 

Health function:

1. Compound in wakame known as fucoxanthin can help burn fatty tissue. Wakame is also used in topical beauty

treatments.

2. In Oriental medicine it has been used for blood purification, intestinal strength, skin, hair.

Production process: 

→Choosing good fresh wakame raw material

→Removing wakame leaves and unusable part

→Cleaning the impurities 

→Shredding stems by hand to proper size

→Cutting to proper length by cutting machine

→Re-cleaning residual impurities

→Adding moderate salt

→Testing

→ Packing→Storing in refrigeration house