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Doctor Eric Burg.

Did you realize that most of the wasabi out there is actually fake?

Yeah. True wasabi is very hard to grow and it's very expensive.

It's like $160 a kilogram.

But 95% of all the wasabi sold at sushi restaurants are made from something else.

Horst, radish, mustard, either green food coloring or spinach juice.

Yeah, I'm not kidding.

Because in order to get the true wasabi, which by the way has a massive health benefit,

you would have to go to Japan or go to very specialized restaurants that serve it.

And so if you ever buy it in the store out of a bottle or can make sure you read the ingredients.

At these restaurants that wasabi is served, they're served as a root.

And they give you a little greater so you can actually grade it.

Because the optimum time of flavor is about one minute.

Okay.

But there's all these receptors for wasabi in your sonuses and your lung and your throat.

And this is why when you consume either wasabi or the horse radish and mustard,

you're going to actually your nose is going to run.

And your eyes might water because they stimulate the receptor that is involved with pain and inflammation actually.

But anyway, wasabi has various vital nutrients that when combined when you grate them or shred them or crushed the plant,

you stimulate a very special vital nutrient called iso cyanates.

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