Organic Kombu Flakes - 28 gr. Young Pure Seaweed Grown in North Atlantic. EU Certified and Freeze-Dried Premium Quality. Soft Texture & Mild Taste. 140 Servings

As long as you don’t put in your food directly I don’t recommend this Baby version I use most of the time for legumes and the big piece are better

Excellent

This is a great tasting product it ain't cheap but a great clean flavour and it goes along way.

Home cooking

Having already had a pack of the Wagamama seaweed from the same company, I was interested to try their Kombu. No, it wasn't Wagamama. Whack-a-mole or something, I think it was called. It was the one that reminded me of the Italian George Michael tribute act that I once saw at Butlin's, anyway. Ah yes, "wakame", that was it. Wakame up before you go, go.https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B083G3X24MAnyway, having enjoyed the taste of that, there was no sense in turning down another. This tastes great too, but after doing some online research, I'm genuinely quite concerned by the complete absence of safety information. The amount of iodine is fairly high in wakame, but in kombu it's truly off the scale. That might sound like a good thing. Perhaps if you were to cut yourself after a big dose, you could count on the wound to sterilise itself? However, if you should eat this stuff directly from the packaging- you could easily end up overdosing on iodine. The packaging suggests putting it into food (which, if cooked would cause most of the iodine to evaporate) but it doesn't give any indication that there would be risks with eating it straight up, unless in extreme moderation. Also, they don't even specify that the food should be cooked. With cold food the problem is no different.Equally disturbing is the sheer inconsistency with which serving sizes are to be measured. The pack I received claims the serving size is a teaspoon, which they say is 0.2g. However, the item listing says that the serving size is half a tea spoon for 0.2g. Conversely, the wakame pack says a teaspoon worth is 0.6g and I didn't notice an obvious difference in density. Seeing as none of these match, I don't know what could be trusted. However, if half a tea spoon is indeed 0.2g, the pack I received had advised a dose that would have amounted to at least 0.4g or possibly 0.6g. That's without even factoring in the sheer imprecision of spoons as measuring devices. As a well to do fellow, I personally use gold cutlery with significantly oversized teaspoons, for the most aristocratic of portion sizes.https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/review/B082W13VKH/R192V5AEIKMP06For all I know, I might even have been pushing closer to a gram, when I followed what they said about using a teaspoon worth. Even if I was on 0.4g, (as their altered instructions would suggest) that's almost one and a half times times the maximum safe dose and could trigger iodine poisoning. In fact, even the dose that they suggest now is around three quarters of the upper limit.Although they do advise to use it in food, it's grossly unacceptable practise for a commercial company not to give any form of warning about the consequences of eating this uncooked. Especially when they clearly made a misprint on the pack I received, advising a double dose. Are they also sending out puffer fishes to customers, with incorrect advice on which bit you can eat and which bit is poisonous? Ironically, the symptoms of iodine poisoning are basically identical to those of iodine deficiency, thus risking an extremely unpleasant cycle of misunderstanding for anyone who might be taking this as a health supplement.When it comes down to it, cooking this stuff probably gives too little iodine to be terribly useful, whereas eating it cold gives so much as to be dangerous, unless exercising the most extreme moderation. It would be far more sensible to stick with that Giorgio Michael seaweed option. And I'm really quite alarmed by the fact that it took the silliest reviewer on the whole of Amazon to give any due warning about the health risks of this product.

We received this product as part of the Amazon Vine programWe love seaweed and regularly have seaweed strips to eat as is or with Asian style dishes. We were lucky enough to try the Wakame flakes so we were keen to try this product to compare the two.Here are our thought on this Atlantic Kombu seaweed:-• Security sealed properly as you have to cut the top off to open.• The closing seal is brilliant – we could hear the seal engage when closing so we could be sure we had properly closed it.• The packaging is well designed. Everything is laid out well, easy to understand and has maximum impact. We normally struggle trying to see the NRV values but this design is great, making a point to call out the important nutrient content.• Best before is easy to find and not short dated but have 9-10 months left on ours.• This seaweed is harvested before it had a chance to fully grow – no longer than 4 months. This apparently reduces the time the plants have to less time for heavy metal exposure. We have no way to test this but logically makes sense and we like this concept.• Vegan suitable – tick!• Non-GMO – tick!• Organic certified – tick!• Recipe QR code – nice touch!• Biodegradable packaging which includes the seal. This is interesting as we though the seal was plastic.• This is very salty so this is definitely to be used in recipes rather than snacking or sprinkling on a meal as a garnish.• Amazon page says 60 servings but pack say 140 – so assuming the details are in correct on the Amazon page.• Great source of iodine which is goof for thyroid function/healthOverall recommendation – one of the best food packing we’ve ever seen - all biodegradable and easy to read. No need to strain your eyes to get the NRV percent of the minerals in the seaweed. For us this is best served in our cooking but it is very salty so this isn’t a you can throw it into anything deal.

I've been using Nunami's Wakame flakes for a little while now and found them a really useful and tasty way to add savoury flavour to dishes, so I thought I'd give these Organic Kombu Flakes a try too. I mainly use them as an addition to things like soups or as a garnish sprinkled onto dishes and they add some nice 'umami' flavour together with some extra nutrition. You don't need a lot, especially of these Kombu flakes because they pack a lot of salty seaweed flavour and the Kombu is noticeably stronger than the Wakame with more of a fishy seafood flavour. It's not a bad flavour but it's strong enough that you'll want to avoid over-seasoning a dish in case it ends up overpowering things. Used sparingly these flakes are a great replacement for salt as a seasoning and add the saltiness but also enhance the other flavours and add that elusive umami.Given how little you need you get a decent quantity in the pack, although admittedly it's pricey to buy upfront. The pack reseals easily and keeps the flakes fresh and dry but beware the water-based printing ink they've used on the outside, wet fingers do it no favours. If you're nervous of over-strong flavours or don't need the high Iodine levels that Kombu supplies then I'd stick with Wakame, it's a bit subtler, but for stronger flavoured dishes or a real sea-salty tang this Kombu is great.