name: Wakame

flavor_db_name_variants: wakame

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Wakame

id: 550

name_scientific: Undaria pinnatifida

description: 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.

itis_id: null

wikipedia_id: Wakame

picture_file_name: 564.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 55618

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:41:44.000Z

legacy_id: 591

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Seaweed

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:48.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:27.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 74381

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00550