Sea Vegetable
Royal Kombu Style Atlantic
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Royal kombu-style Atlantic is sugar kelp packed to stand in for kombu in dashi-like broths. Texture and glutamate differ from Japanese kombu. Honest packs say Saccharina latissima. A weeknight dashi analogue. Buy real kombu when the broth is the dish.
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AnalogueAnalogue PackAtlanticBrothDashi Stand InHonest LabelNot True KombuSpecies Differ
History
Packers sold Atlantic sugar kelp as royal kombu-style for dashi cooks.
Better labels put Atlantic species first.
The style name stayed for analogue broths; japonica kombu stayed the reference.