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Okay, So It's Not Safe. Seitan is a popular source of protein for people following a vegetarian or vegan diet, and it commonly appears on the menu in vegetarian restaurants or in ready-to-eat dishes sold at the deli counter and refrigerated sections in health food stores.
Laurel recently requested an episode on seitan: What the heck is it, how does it stack up nutritionally, and how do you eat it? Seitan is not a new thing. The word (pronounced say-tan) is Japanese and was coined just 50 years ago by one of the proponents of the macrobiotic diet. But the food it refers to has been a staple in Asian cultures for at least 15 centuries.