Emerald Cove Ready-to-Use Pacific Wakame, Premium Dried Seaweed, Non-GMO, Gluten Free, 1.76 oz (1 pk)

I made seaweed salad with it. The taste and texture was perfect.

Excellent product, very flavorful. I will order again.

This is the best Wakame sea weed that i have ever bought. Dried perfectly—reconstitutes with water quickly and the flavor is mild and not bitter

I love seaweed salad and decided to try my hand at making it at home. Rehydrating was easy and the texture is wonderful. It does have a fishy smell/taste that some people like and some don't. Washing and rinsing repeatedly helps. Vinegar helps even more. As a raw salad nothing covered it completely. I haven't tried it in soup yet.I'm not saying it's a bad taste, some people enjoy the brine overtones, but it is there and if you are sensitive to it your expectations should be reasonable. It can be lessened or covered with other flavors but it is definitely overwhelming when you first start rehydrating. It helps to be prepared for that so your not left wondering if you made a terrible mistake. 😉

I absolutely love this, it has never disappointed.

The only food documented to reduce IGF1. So if one is going to eat meat which raises IGF-1 this sea vegetable could be helpful in healthy aging; this is according to Dr. Micheal Greger in his evidence based. book "How Not to Age." Emerald Cove brand seems extremely fresh and will be my go to brand.

If you already know about wakame, then you don't need to read this review. If you don't, you should, because this is one of the greatest and most versatile staples you can keep in your kitchen. Wakame is a mild, slightly salty, tasty seaweed that is full of nutrients and flavor. However, you'd starve to death if you tried to live off this, because it has almost no calories. There are a number of ways you can prepare this. As a soup base, it's quite awesome - just simmer a half cup in a pot of water, add miso, soy sauce, or ponzu, and then spike it with frozen shrimp, thin sliced pork, or whatever else you'd like to toss in. Add a dash of sriracha and sesame oil, and you've got a great-tasting low-calorie soup that beats the pants off anything you can get in a can. If you want some carbs in there, add any kind of noodle you like, from vermicelli to udon. Because the wakame itself adds so much flavor, you don't really need to overload it with sodium-laden soy sauce - just add enough for a little more flavor. My favorite use it to use it as an instant salad - just add water! Place a cup or two of wakame in a bowl, and add 2 volumes of ice cold water. Place it in the fridge, drain the next day, and you've got instant salad to last the whole week. I add thin shredded daikon, carrots, cilantro, and whatever meat I have on hand: frozen shrimp, leftover chicken, canned salmon, even taco meat that didn't make it into shells. Add a sauce made of soy or ponzu with a little rice vinegar, fresh ginger juice if you have it, and a little splash of sesame oil. Top with toasted sesame seeds and you've got an awesome seaweed salad that costs pennies to make, has flavor for days, and very little calories. This bag might seem enormous when you first get it, but once you discover its many uses, you'll use it up faster than you ever thought possible - I go through 3-4 bags a year.More wakame trivia: don't worry about depleting the world's supply, as wild wakame is considered one of the top 100 invasive plants, and has even established itself in San Francisco Bay. Wakame also contains the chemical fucoxanthin, which Japanese scientists claim can enhance fat burning - this may be true or not, but given its low caloric content, it'd be hard to get fat eating this stuff anyway.

This is the only brand of wakame that I have ever tried in the US and I have always been satisfied with it.