Dried Wakame 30g | Southern Seagreens Seaweed Superfood
Dried Wakame 30g | Southern Seagreens Seaweed Superfood
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Umami packed, hand-harvested Australian Wakame for cooking, health and wellness. An amazingly versatile and delectable sea vegetable, this product won us the Delicious Magazine Change Maker award (judged by some of Australia's leading chefs).
We dive for invasive, wild-growing Wakame in southern Port Phillip Bay before hand rinsing and hanging each plant to dry in our dedicated ambient air-drying facility. We gently dry the product down to less then 0.6 water activity so that it is absolutely shelf stable while retaining maximum flavour and nutritional value. Note 30g of our Dried Wakame will hydrate to approx 150g. Chefs often tell us how much more flavour our Wakame has than anything they can import!
Kelp (Wakame is a species of kelp) is known as the superfood of the sea for good reason. It's packed with vitamins and minerals important for human health including iodine, magnesium, iron, calcium, folate and vitamins A, C, E and K. And removing invasive Wakame helps our native kelp to re-establish. It's been struggling in recent times due to climate change and invasive sea urchins.
Wakame has traditionally been eaten in salad or miso soup, but can be easily added to omelettes, fritters, pasta sauce, poke, almost anything really. You can flash fry some blades for a few seconds to make delicious umami chips that you can sprinkle over all sorts of dishes. Or hydrate desired amount in water (70°c for min 2 minutes) where it will expand by about five times the volume. Then rinse and squeeze excess water out and chop up and add it to your other ingredients for baked or fried dishes.
If you notice white deposits on some of the Wakame blades in the pack, you're in luck. This is a naturally occurring amino acid called glutamate which gives seaweed its unique umami flavour.
Take a look at our recipes page for inspiration. And if you come up with a great recipe with our Wakame we'd love to hear about it!
Food Safety
We take food safety seriously. Our premises is registered for food processing with the Mornington Peninsula Shire and we test the water activity of all our products before packaging. We ensure a water activity level below 0.6 — a threshold that prevents the growth of bacteria and moulds. Hence our products are absolutely shelf-stable, safe, and of the highest quality. Note you should always keep our products stored in a sealed container in a cool dry place.
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The order came promptly and the packaging is nice. The kelp tastes delicious and we are sprinkling it on our lunch greens each day. We wanted to make sure we have enough iodine in our diet since we are vegans. We don't want to get too much though since I know kelp is rich in iodine. I would love the packaging to come with the available iodine in Ug per serve and per 100g. The recommended daily amount of iodine is 150 Ug so I hope we are getting that with our small serving of kelp. Congratulations southern seagreens for making this in Australia so we don't have to eat seaweed brought from the south china sea. Locally grown is always better and from the pristine waters of Westernport Bay off Flinders.
Great Australian Product, I love this company, great Wakame.
I love this Dried Wakame. It’s so nutritious and the fact that it’s harvested locally to me is awesome! A small business doing good things, making super healthy and tasty edible kelp products.
Best seaweed I have ever eaten. Fantastic in salads and soups.
I was so excited to discover a locally harvested seaweed!
I enjoy it straight from the bag, in soups and sautes. it is so fresh and mild in flavour.
Knowing how good it is for me and that I am supporting a local craft and business, and the environment too makes me very happy. Thank you Southern Seagreens.