Most wasabi in the shops is NOT the Cancer Fighting Wasabi Not all product that reads “wasabi” on the label is really wasabi. The wasabi powder you find in the majority of grocery stores and that is used in a majority of sushi restaurants in the United States really shouldn’t be called wasabi at all. […]
Wasabi Fights Pancreatic Cancer
Study shows Unique Wasabi Chemical kills Pancreatic Cancer Cells A new study published in Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine titled, “Effect of Wasabi Component 6-(Methylsulfinyl)hexyl Isothiocyanate and Derivatives on Human Pancreatic Cancer Cells,”[i] (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3918374/) reveals the potent Japanese herb Wasabia japonica may help fight highly lethal Pancreatic Cancer. A team of Taiwanese researchers studied the […]
biologically important
Another scientific study says Wasabi ingredient is biologically important A study that has been published in the European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry stated that one of the unique chemicals found only in Wasabia japonica is biologically important. In a paper entitled Sulforaphane homologues: Enantiodivergent synthesis of both enantiomers, activation of the Nrf2 transcription factor and […]