STORY: 70-year-old Japanese farmer, Masahiro Hoshina, has been growing wasabi in Okutama, west of downtown Tokyo, for years. But as typhoon season approaches, he’s getting concerned about his future.

Jon Old’s family farm has been producing watercress in Dorset and Hampshire since the 1850s, but it was a chance observation from a visiting chef—that the growing beds for the notoriously fussy plant ...

Wasabi paste — or more simply, "wasabi" — is produced by grating the stem of the wasabi plant (the wasabi rhizome). When this stem is grated, the plant's components break down almost immediately, ...

Even if you’ve never eaten it, most people are still familiar with the green, spicy paste served next to sushi or sashimi. That staple of Japanese cuisine is wasabi — or at least it looks like wasabi.

Wasabi, the spicy condiment often served with sushi, might help healthy older adults who don’t have any cognitive issues improve their memory, a small Japanese study suggests. Researchers randomly ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Wasabi is a small green plant in the brassica family, that means it's related to many cheap and easy to find plants like horseradish, cabbage, or ...