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

I couldn’t find seaweed salad anywhere locally, so I gave this a try — and I’m so glad I did. I didn’t have high expectations, but it’s genuinely delicious and super easy to prepare. I use a 4:1 ratio of water to seaweed and let it soak for a few minutes, then drain and gently squeeze out the extra water.The texture after rehydrating is great — soft but still with a nice bite. I usually add rice vinegar, a little fish sauce, and sesame seeds for a quick and tasty seaweed salad. It also works beautifully in poke bowls and sushi bakes.It makes a surprising amount — the seaweed expands a lot when rehydrated, so one package lasts for many servings. I store it in an airtight container on the shelf, and it’s held up really well over time with no change in quality or texture.For a shelf-stable pantry item, this one really delivers.

I love this is miso soups. Taste is wonderful and so healthy. Packaged well and arrived quickly. Perfect.

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

I still bought it after reading reviews of it being from polluted coast of China. Unfortunately the maybe more pristine products in little tiny packages are priced for Big Daddy Warbucks type folk only, not for average consumer that wants to use this as a staple food. Not having access to some lab to determine what exact pollutants are in it, just have to go by what I observe. No doubt it isnt pristine, but somehow doubt much food out there is all that pristine. At least its not a highly processed product, and not genetically altered for ever more profit.Its in usable size pieces. Taste is exactly what you expect from wakame, pretty bland, so can be used easily with nearly any main course food. I use it cause its an easy way to have some greens in my diet even when in hurry or I dont have fresh on hand. I dont live where I can just walk down to the local farmers market (or even a supermarket with wilty wonders) at a whim.Hey maybe eventually humans will get a clue and not treat oceans we harvest food from, like a huge industrial sewer. Even those products claiming to be from remote pristine waters arent. When we have huge moving islands of dumped plastic out in remote areas of pacific, pretty obvious nothing is pristine. When items washed to sea after the big Japanese tidal wave end up on beaches on west coast of North America, pretty obvious pollution dumped into oceans doesnt stay politely in one specific spot where it was originally dumped.

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.

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

Easy to hydrate. Simple to use. Excellent "seashore" flavor. And a little goes a LOOOOONG way. I'm still on my first bag that I bought months ago. So here's my story: Regular ramen bowls at restaurants give me headaches. Bummer, because they are so delicious, but I came up with a home version I adore (without headaches!) I use a Trader Joe's miso ramen cup, I add about a half can Amy's Mushroom bisque soup (also amazing on its own, or to add to other things), a little freshly ground pepper, and this seaweed. It's... sublime (modesty aside). You can also add chicken. I hydrate the seaweed in a tiny bowl while I'm getting the soup ready. I toss out the water is was soaking in (and pray that I'm also getting rid of any strange chemicals from unknown waters), cut it up small with kitchen shears inside the bowl (I don't handle it), and spoon it into the bowl with the soup. I love it, and hope that you will, too. Oh, also, you can do all the heating with a microwave - bonus! Almost no dishes, too. I also cut up the ramen noodles with the kitchen shears. I know it's supposed to be bad luck (long noodles, long life and all), but flicking soup on my clothing seems like bad luck in the here and now, and I want noodles that fit on my soup spoon. Duh, right? ;-)