Originally published at: Study shows wasabi offers a "dramatic" boost in memory
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According to my googling skills, Wasabi sold in the USA is actually horseradish with a bit of tinting. It is related to the Japanese plant, but more available and less expensive. So it looks like we need a follow-on study!
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Is this restricted to actual Japanese wasabi? I doubt the stuff we get at American sushi restaurants counts… 
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Yay! Need to remember to plant some in the Spring.
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Damnit, now you’ve got me thinking about how to make this work in VA!
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patenting wasabai toothpaste
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Same.
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Apparently, the wasabi sold in Japan is often not wasabi either.
ETA: if it’s not produced in the Wasabi region of france, it’s only sparkling root.
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the spicy ground rhizome that takes sushi from a meal and turns it into an event
Yep. An unpleasant event I’d rather not remember, so avoiding it entirely seems like a good personal strategy for me. 
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One of my local shops sells tubes of wasabi whose main ingredient is wasabi. It’s better than the normal stuff I think.
I must admit that I haven’t got the real fresh stuff grated though they do grow it locally.
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A friend unaccustomed to it thought it was avocado. Hilarity ensued.
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Well, I guess we do all laugh at unfortunates who slip on banana skins…
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* This message brought to you by the Wasabi Growers Association of Japan.
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There’s a French movie called “Wasabi”, with Jean Reno as a fish-out-of-water French detective in Tokyo. In one scene, waiting for his meal in a restaurant, he distractedly dips both fingers into the pot of wasabi on the table and helps himself to a healthy dollop.
I saw it in a French movie theater, and about half the audience gasped audibly. The gasp was followed by a burst of general nervous laughter. I think the reason that it was only half the audience was because sushi hadn’t really hit France back then, and not everyone knew what wasabi was.
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that’s at 1:10 below, hilarious!
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Not what I expected. At all!
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This story set off several woo alarms, so I googled the background, and it seems the study is published, but in a journal that may have some issues. The top google results are overwhelmingly just versions of this same story on other sites in the boingboing mold.
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