A Cup a Day is a Boost to Health Miso is one of the key ingredients of miso soup which is made by fermenting soybeans, barley, rice, and the fungus kojikin. Generally, the soup contains niboshi, which are dried sardines that have not matured yet, dried kelp, and pieces of smoked tuna, among others. The…

Gluten Tidbits To Watch Out For If you have celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity, you’d think sushi is perfectly safe. That is, if you’re sure you are getting gluten-free sushi. You might think sushi is just fish and rice, but there may be tiny details you are missing out on and those can render…

The Good Sushi Rolls Sushi is your forever, quintessential food source of high-quality protein and other health-giving minerals. May seem like a really healthy meal because it’s made up of seafood. It’s well-studied that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish lowers risks of heart attacks, they are not only naturally anti-inflammatory, they play a role…

Your Essential Equipment And Why They’re Important Presuming you have the recipe and knowledge to make sushi, all you need is time, space and the paraphernalia in making your favorite delicacy at home. Let us start then. Certainly you should have your rice. But not just any rice; it should be short grain Japanese rice…

Getting Acquainted with The Octopus The octopus is a cephalopod mollusc, a cousin to the squid and the cuttlefish. It may be one of the most intelligent and behaviorally flexible invertebrates in the seas. Large or small, the octopi have the striking ability to defend themselves from predators. They can shoot ink at their enemies…

Delicious Scallops with Benefits Scallops are family members with snails, sea slugs, clams, mussels, octopuses and squid. These marine animals are bivalves, living within two fan-shaped, hinged shells with easily recognizable ridges. Unlike other bivalves, they are free-swimming, opening and closing their shells as they go, using their powerful adductor muscle. That’s the round, fleshy…

Shrimp Talk and Shrimp Benefits When you talk about shrimps, you’re referring to a broad classification of any one of hundreds of small crustaceans that inhabit all marine habitats in the world. Most known cultures eat shrimps. Most shrimp species are small, approximately 1-3 cm long, but the much larger varieties, sometimes growing up to…

The Many Faces of Japanese Rice Cooked rice is central to Japanese tradition and for over 2,000 years it was cultivated all across the country. It is barely absent on the dinner table and has come to symbolize the Japanese way of life. Let’s look at the different common types of Japanese cooked rice. There’s…

Sushi and Avocado: American-Made Many people don’t know that the avocado fruit is foreign to Japan and not commonly used in sushi rolls. Avocado only became available in Japanese supermarkets, mostly from Mexico, since the late 1970s. The Japanese refer to it as the ‘ butter of the forest’ for its buttery consistency, rich flavor…

Humble Whole Food, High in Goodness Edamame are soybeans, but are the young beans harvested at the early stage of development. Typically, soybeans are allowed to mature on the vine to form hard beans which can be easily harvested and stored. But they can also be picked at the peak of ripeness, right before they…