What is nori seaweed?

Chinese medicine and anti-aging specialist Mao Shing Ni, L.Ac. & PhD, explains what nori seaweed is and why it's a healthy addition to your diet. Watch this video for tips and information on overall wellness and anti-aging.

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If you ever had sushi, you've had Nori. You put the Nori sheets down. You put rice and then your vegetables or crab meat

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or whatever else you want to put in there, and you roll it up. [MUSIC PLAYING]

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Nori is a type of seaweed that's consumed widely in Japan as well as Asia and more now

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increasingly in America today. Nori commonly will be found in health food

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stores, supermarkets, in fact. And they come in packages, and they look like sheets, sheets of paper, except it's black.

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And if you ever had sushi, you've had Nori because sushi is made by rolling--

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because you put the Nori sheets down. You put rice and then your vegetables or crabmeat or whatever else you want to put in there, and you roll it up.

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I call it the Asian taco. No, again, instead of using a tortilla, you can use Nori.

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And it's low calorie. It's wonderful. Anyway, get back to Nori, the health benefits of Nori. What you have here is a vegetable

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that has just as much omega 3 fatty acids in one sheet of Nori compared to two avocados, two

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avocados-- which is incredible if you think about it-- without the fattening properties. Although avocado is great, and I would highly

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recommend that-- but seaweed. So Nori can be eaten as part of your sushi, or you can shred it, put it in your soup,

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put on baked potatoes. There's all kinds of ways to eat it. This is the only seaweed that you don't have to cook. The other types of seaweed you need

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to first reconstitute because they usually come dried. And then you have to cook it before you can eat it. But Nori is very simple.

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You can even find them in snack food sections now in some specialty grocery stores or Asian grocery stores.

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And they come toasted with a little sesame oil, and it absolutely is delicious. I use it personally in place of pita chips to dip my hummus.

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So this is what I use now, and it's fantastic. [WHOOSH] [HEART BEAT]