When you eat wakame with rice, your body doesn’t need to pump out as much insulin to handle the sugar, which might help your cells respond better to insulin.

Adding a small amount of wakame seaweed to rice helps keep your blood sugar and insulin from spiking too high right after eating.

Wakame works a bit like other high-fiber foods to slow down sugar absorption after meals.

Adding a tiny bit of wakame to your rice or pasta might be an easy way to keep your blood sugar from shooting up after meals, especially if you’re at risk for diabetes.

Wakame starts working to lower blood sugar and insulin just 30 minutes after you eat it with rice.

If you have type 1 diabetes and use an insulin pump that gives you the same amount of insulin no matter what you eat, eating cold rice can make your blood sugar drop too low after meals—because your body absorbs less sugar from cold rice, but you still get the same insulin dose.