There is a lot of excitement about Kelp Noodles, and some great recipes, but isn’t anyone else concerned about the smell of formaldehyde that overpowers you when you open the package? I just received my first case yesterday, and though the smell and taste can be eliminated by thorough soaking and rinsing, do you think the noodles are free from toxicity? Has anyone had them tested?
I don’t want to put a damper on the enthusiasm, but since health is our priority here, let’s not let our cravings (for a noodle substitute) over power our common sense.
I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts.
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I don’t know for sure that they are packed in formaldehyde, but that is what it smells like. The last time I smelled formaldehyde was in my high school biology class, many, many years ago—-so I’m not confident of my “diagnosis”. Whatever it is, it is an awful chemical smell.
I found that when soaked for ten to fifteen minutes they lose the crunchiness although if you dont eat them all and put the remaining ones, it says to store them in water, which I did, but when I went back the next day to eat the rest, even though they were still in water, they were crunchy again, even after being rinsed and they taste of absolutely nothing and smell of nothing too so they need some sort of sauce or to be added to a soup but as I have no knowledge of formaldehyde either I dont know if they are in packaged in that! I hope not!
Mass produced seaweed products are not that ecological sound either. I like to think of seaweed as a wild treat that I enjoy when I wild harvest it. There are also some small local seaweed companies in maine, oregon, and california, that don’t over harvest the waters. My favorite foods to spiralize for pasta are daikon radish, english cucumber (has very few seeds) and celery root. Cerery root, once it has marinated in sauce for an hour or so is really “cooked” tasting.
I agree. Kelp noodles smell like plastic, feel like plastic and pretty much taste like plastic...
Plastic wrap may not be processed over 100 degrees either but I still wouldn't recommend eating it.