{"id":22717,"date":"2016-07-14T10:24:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=22717"},"modified":"2016-07-14T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T15:24:32","slug":"wasabi-wannabe-and-the-chemistry-of-the-hot-green-sushi-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/wasabi-wannabe-and-the-chemistry-of-the-hot-green-sushi-substance\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasabi wannabe and the chemistry of the hot green sushi substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is sad that most sushi lovers will never have real wasabi. I had assumed that I had sampled real wasabi when I spent several days eating sushi morning noon and night in Actual Japan. But even then, there is a good chance I never tasted the stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that most &#8220;wasabi&#8221; is fake, and the agronomy and chemistry of wasabi, turn out to be really interesting.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/808HUaxP538\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cen.acs.org\/articles\/88\/i12\/Wasabi.html\">Here is the background info references in the video.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is sad that most sushi lovers will never have real wasabi. I had assumed that I had sampled real wasabi when I spent several days eating sushi morning noon and night in Actual Japan. But even then, there is a good chance I never tasted the stuff. The reason that most &#8220;wasabi&#8221; is fake, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/wasabi-wannabe-and-the-chemistry-of-the-hot-green-sushi-substance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wasabi wannabe and the chemistry of the hot green sushi substance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1986,1987,1988,26,1989,1990],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5Up","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}