Name: Edamame Farm | Japanese Superfood Snack Adventure ★ ONLY in JAPAN
Uploaded: 2019-11-08T03:29:48.000Z
Duration: 12 min 23 s
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but between the end of June and the beginning of September

and available at all the Japanese supermarkets

and it's by far my favourite summer snack

Chiba prefecture near Tokyo to a city called Noda.

The middle of the prefecture is mostly farms

and they sell some of the best edamame in town!

The store just opened and customers are quick to snag up

400 yen or about $4 get you 300 grams of right off the stem edamame.

Yumeaguri has several varieties of of Edamame –

that's right! There are dozens of cultivars!

There are edamame products too like Edamame toufu.

Yup – it's green, sweet and slightly salty with a hint of edamame.

Executive director of Yumeaguri Noda is Sekine-san

to get a better understanding on how edamame are made

We grabbed a wheel barrel and headed to his field out back.

Starting in April, he hand plants the edamame seeds

in the field where they start sprouting within a week.

Here they are after 2 weeks. No soy bean pods yet.

Sekine-san and I were after the immature soy beans

His family harvests them fresh daily in the summer

from June to August when the weather is best

all hand planted which means a lot of long days here.

when it's enjoyed with copious amounts of beer at izakaya,

rooftop gardens or in homes all over the country.

Edamame are immature beans so you have to harvest them early.

At harvest time. the thickness of the pod will be

Soy Beans are mature while Edamame are the immature soft version of them, thus the different name.

It's called Edamame when still in the pod

Avoid Edamame that is yellowish or shrunken.

Edamame are usually boiled in salted water or steamed.

They're high in fiber, calcium, amino acids, and a ton of minerals and vitamins.

Low is sugar and fat and almost no cholesterol.

Around Tokyo, Edamame are planted in April and harvested in June but different areas have different seasons.

when harvested fresh so the best are always local.

Much healthier than french fries & potato chips!

The Japanese word Edamame entered the Oxford English Dictionary in 2003.

Let's harvest some edamame with Sekine-san right now.

Sekine-san just pulls them from the ground!

The plants are about 80-100 centimeters high.

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