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Nori is basically seaweed paper. An original Japanese food product,
it is made from various species of the red alga Porphyra, including most
notably P. yezoensis and P. tenera, by a shredding and rack-drying process
that resembles papermaking. Nori is commonly used as a wrap for Onigiri and
Makisushi.
Nori is sometimes translated laver in English, but the term usually
applies to plants of the genus Porphyra and not to the finished edible
sheets of nori. The English term is in any case not well known, and in the
US, the term nori is more common.
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