Wasabi
What the research shows
Not enough
published research on this page yet
What research says
Animal and lab studies only
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Benefit
Blood pressure and gut bugs3
In rats, wasabi powder stopped high blood pressure and changed the mix of gut bacteria.
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Products
The 6 most-scanned of 397 products on Open Food Facts that list wasabi.
- Wasabi peas The Foodie Market · 120 g 4 additives
- Wasabi mix rice snacks Snaktastic · 150 g 7 additives
- Wasabi sauce for sandwiches and dipping Imp Kikkoman 3 additives
- Crispy seeweed wasabi Itsu 0 additives
- Dry Roasted Edamame Wasabi Seapoint Farms · 35 oz 1 additive
- wasabi Rice up · 60 g 2 additives
References
- 1wasabi: ingredient taxonomy entry. Open Food Facts.
- 2Wasabi. Wikipedia. Accessed September 29, 2026. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 3Thomaz FS, Altemani F, Panchal SK, Worrall S, Dekker Nitert M. The influence of wasabi on the gut microbiota of high-carbohydrate, high-fat diet-induced hypertensive Wistar rats. J Hum Hypertens. 2021;35(2):170-180. doi:10.1038/s41371-020-0359-8