Dried Wakame 30g | Southern Seagreens Seaweed Superfood

Thanks for your patience folks. New season Dried Wakame is now in stock!

Tase the difference with our exceptional Australian Wakame. 

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 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. 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 (we'll be adding more very soon). And if you come up with a great recipe with our Wakame we'd love to hear about it!

Make friends with kelp. Good for you, me and the sea!

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.