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the seaweed that quietly torches fat in lab rats and outpaces vegetables in iodine.
means Wakame is an edible brown seaweed, common in Japanese cuisine, with a silky texture and mild briny taste, used in soups and salads.
from Straight from Japanese わかめ (wakame), where waka- relates to 'young' or fresh growth and -me is an old word for edible seaweed. The seaweed has been harvested and eaten in Japan for well over a thousand years, and the name traveled into English largely intact along with the dish that made it famous, miso soup.
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