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