Today, food lovers across the planet have found that traditional Japanese food is both delicious and very (if not extremely) healthy. This video goes through 20 traditional Japanese foods that all provide one or several health benefits. In many cases, you will have to learn a little about how to prepare dishes to maximize the taste and the health aspect.

Some Japanese words are not pronounced the correct way in the video. We will put together a sound file with the correct pronounciation and include it in this posting, probably later this week.

Here is the list. The video linked to here is a bit longish, just over half an hour, but it's well worth watching since it's full of good information with narration in English.

1. Natto

2. Miso paste

3. Tofu

4. Edamame

5. Soy sauce

6. Japanese pickles

7. Oily fish

8. Sashimi

9. Seaweed varieties

10. Shirasu whole white bait

11. Daikon radish

12. Purple sweet potato from Okinawa