The Wasabi You Eat Probably Isn’t Wasabi

Most of the time, the wasabi you get in a restaurant or buy in a store is fake. It’s actually horseradish that’s colored green. Why? Well, wasabi is a notoriously difficult plant to grow. In fact, it’s considered the most difficult plant in the world to farm commercially. Yet for the past century, the Daio Wasabi Farm in Hokata, Japan, has been growing it successfully with natural spring water from nearby mountains.

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+1 1. Natan_el_Tigre commented 6 years ago

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+1 2. Judge-Jake commented 6 years ago

I hate the stuff, but now I'm sure what I hate. 8-)
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-1 3. thundersnow commented 6 years ago

To say the wasabi we get in restaurants is fake, it's "only horseradish colored green" is incorrect, because even though they are not identical, wasabi and horseradish are literally the same plant down to the family, but differ in genus and species, definitely not fake, which implies it's a completely different substance, just a tad bit different, but pretty much the same unless you are a botanist... :x
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+1 4. cameramaster commented 6 years ago

Oh crap...I HATE Horseradish :-/