Name: Dehydrated Curly Wakame Seaweed
Brand: BRETALG
SKU: 40CURLY500
Price: 26.8 EUR
Availability: InStock

(Undaria pinnatifida)

In partnership with BRETALG, this wakame is hand-harvested and dehydrated to preserve all its benefits. We offer you a unique format: large "curly" pieces that triple in volume when you rehydrate them. This allows you to use wakame as a base for your salads, dishes, and sides, similar to fresh wakame. You can also eat it as is, to replace chips at your appetizers!

We use dehydration at 120°C for curly wakame, which gives the seaweed its curly shape. Therefore, it doesn't have the same benefits as fresh or 40°C dried seaweed because some vitamins and enzymes are thermolabile, but it retains the full profile of minerals and trace elements, and this seaweed is very easy to use in salads as a main ingredient.

Its taste is quite mild, with a slightly smoky flavor and its texture, once rehydrated, is firm and pleasant.

🌿 Recipe idea for spring/summer:

- 25 g of wakame
- 50 g of parsley
- 1 handful of mustard or clover sprouts
- 3 tomatoes
- 1/2 cucumber
- 1/2 bell pepper
- 1 lemon
- Flaxseed oil or sesame oil
- 1/2 glass of seawater
- 1 clove of garlic
- Pepper
- Paprika

Cut the vegetables and garlic, making sure to keep their water. Mix all the ingredients. Let the salad swell for at least 2 hours so the wakame rehydrates and gains volume.
Enjoy!

✨ Discover the world of seaweed in cooking during Éric and Aurélie's appearance on the set of Télé Matin - the flagship show of France 2 - and also watch a report filmed in Roscoff with Bretalg:

✨ As well as this excerpt from a report by France 3 where Eric presents various fresh seaweeds:

🌿 Also find our various books dedicated to seaweeds:

- Seaweed in Everyday Life a book by Aurélie and Eric Viard, published by Editions Galilimard, to help you better use the benefits of seaweeds in your diet! Voted best cookbook in the world at the Gourmand Awards 2025 (SeaFood category) & Named best wellness cookbook 2025 in France by the National Academy of Cuisine

- Cooking with Seaweeds a book and recipe notebook co-written with BRETALG, published by Editions Marie-Claire, containing 80 recipes to make you love seaweeds!

🌿 Wakame is very rich in nutrients.

It contains:
- vitamins: A, B1, B3, B6, B12, B2, B9, and K (like all seaweeds), B5 (pantothenic acid)
- fibers, particularly soluble ones (40% fiber)
- trace elements: calcium 1002mg/100g (wakame is ten times richer in calcium than milk); it is an excellent source of magnesium, potassium, iron, copper, manganese, phosphorus, iodine, zinc.
- proteins
- fatty acids like omega-3
- antioxidants, notably fucoxanthin, a carotenoid pigment that gives it its brownish color
- phytosterols, compounds that chemically resemble cholesterol and prevent the body from absorbing it.

A significant advantage: wakame is low in calories and a source of protein, with an energy value of 184 calories per 100 grams (14 g of protein, 2.5g of lipids, 5.7 g of carbohydrates, and 41 g of fiber)

Complete nutritional sheet from the Center for the Study and Valorization of Algae (for 100g of dehydrated algae)

🌿 To learn more, check out our following articles and many others in our Algae category on our blog:

Wakame: the slimming algae that contains 13 times more calcium than milk

Seaweeds and microalgae: Benefits, nutrients, culinary use

Demystifying the relationships between algae and the thyroid

Fucoidan: unveil the benefits of brown algae for inspired longevity

Algae: the superfoods of the sea, allies of your health and the planet

Fucoxanthin: can this brown algae really help with weight loss?

Okinawa diet and algae: the longevity secret of Japanese centenarians

Algae proteins: the complete alternative to meat decoded

Plant-based iron: why algae beat red meat

🎧 As well as our podcast Algae Daily

🌿 Also find in this video explanations about the use of algae, which are true ocean gems!

🌿 BRETALG has selected a supplier in Asia capable of providing the same quality as what they produce themselves in Brittany. Same type of harvest, same analyses, same mindset around algae and food.

However, BRETALG does not have the necessary equipment to produce these curly wakame in large pieces as we wanted; in fact, no one in Europe has this expertise. The seaweed comes from the country that has been cultivating, enhancing, and using it in cuisine for the longest time: China. They have the ancestral know-how, conduct very rigorous checks, and have cutting-edge techniques to treat the seaweed with the gentleness it requires.

- Packaging: Resealable kraft packaging of 500g

- Best Before Date: 2 years after the production date

- Storage: in a dry place and away from light

- Origin: Asia