New Food Products in Japan articles from December 2002

New Food Products in Japan archives from December 2002

New Confectionery Range from Glico.(Ezaki Glico offers new line of products)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Confectionery giant Ezaki Glico has released a new range of confectionery under the brand name "Will". The small size and easy to carry products in the range are being targeted at working women in the 30 year old age bracket and intended for...

Rice Bread.(Powder Techno Corp. and Yamagata University develop new variety of bread)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Powder Techno Corporation formed in conjunction with Yamagata University has announced the development of a bread that uses rice instead of wheat as its main ingredient. The company now plans to begin marketing the bread nation-wide from...

Ceramide Beauty Capsules.(Honen Corp. launches a beauty nutritional supplement)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Honen Corporation has released "Ceramide Cysteine" a beauty nutritional supplement containing ceramide and cysteine - 2 beauty enhancing agents now commonly found in a wide range of cosmetic products. The product consists of soft...

Flavoured Newka Oligo Sugar.(Pearl Ace launches new line of flavoured syrups)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Tokyo based Pearl Ace (A subsidiary of Maruha) has released "Oligo No Okage" a range of flavoured syrups containing Newka oligo sugar proven to improve the overall working of the digestive system. The syrups, available in 3 flavours...

Kiwi Fruit Wine.(Kagawa Prefecture Sangyo Gijutsu Centre offers new variety of wine )(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Kagawa Prefecture Sangyo Gijutsu Centre has released "Kosui" a sweet wine made from locally produced kiwi fruit. The resultant wine, fermented for a period of 2 weeks in vats at a controlled temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, is rich in...

Nippon Prime Enters "Sour" Mixer Market.(offers three flavoured mixer products)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Nippon Prime has announced its entry into the "Sour" (Consisting of Japanese style vodka "Shochu" mixed with carbonated juice drinks) market with the release of a range of 3 flavoured mixer products. In addition to the conventional...

Green Tea Aroma Coffee.(Karasawa Coffee Ten offers new ground coffee bean product)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Karasawa Coffee Ten has released "Ocha Coffee" a ground coffee bean product with the aroma of "Ocha" green tea. The ground coffee beans are mixed with green tea powder for a specific period of time to enable them to naturally absorb the...

Back to Front Eggs.(Aibekkusu offers new technology)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Aibekkusu has released "Heisei Kimigaeshi" eggs that have the yolk on the outside of the white when boiled. While the actual process has not been fully revealed, the yolk is induced to the outside of the egg using ultra sonic sound waves...

Mefos Enters Home Delivery Meal Business.(starts new service with Hotel Okura Tokyo group)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Major hospital meal provider Mefos is starting a healthy meal home delivery service jointly with Hotel Okura Tokyo group. The new service is called Kenko Bisai and has started serving parts of Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefectures. Half a million...

Circle K Japan, Three F among Convenience Stores Serving Oven-Hot Foods.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Circle K Japan has started selling Achiachi Buns (128 yen each), bread with fillings such as cheese pizza, curry and bacon gratin, in three prefectures. The buns are baked in a special oven called Wave Star for about 60 to 80 seconds so the...

Royal, Joyful, Jonathan and other Family Restaurants Introduce Self-Service Drink Bars.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Royal is introducing self-service drink bars at 52 outlets of its family restaurant Royal Host this year. The drink bar offers 35 items including coffee and tea. At the regular price each drink costs 320 yen, but at lunchtime if the customer...

Uniqlo Operator Fast Retailing Starts Grocery Business through Subsidiary.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Fast Retailing, which sells casual clothing through Uniqlo shops, has started a grocery business called Skip through its wholly-owned subsidiary FR Foods. The business is starting as a home delivery service for members and also selling from...

French Luxury Food Maker Contes du Barry Opens Shop in Japan.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... French luxury food maker Contes du Barry has opened its first French food takeout shop in Japan with an outlet in Ginza, Tokyo. Contes du Barry, Shin Nihon Tsusho and Euro Net have jointly established CDB Japon (30 million yen capital). The...

Mrs. Fields Starts Franchise Chain in Japan.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Mrs. Fields, the US cookie company, has opened a shop in Japan as a franchise. N.E.T. has acquired the master franchise rights and opened the first shop in Tokyo. N.E.T. plans to open three shops by the end of 2003 and aims to open 30 shops...

Rock Field Opens Juice Bar Vegeteria.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Rock Field, which operates delicatessen shops in department stores, has opened Vegeteria, a fresh vegetable juice bar in Marunouchi, Tokyo. The first shop is 24 square meters in area with a takeout sales counter and stand-up drinking area....

UCC Ueshima Opens Espresso Stand.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... UCC Ueshima has opened the first Mr. Espresso in Tokyo. The stand offers Italian-style food and drinks. The menu includes Cappuccino (200 yen), Espresso Doppio (170 yen), Carbonara (450 yen) and Bolognese (400 yen). Pasta items were developed...

Skylark Adds More Shops to Italian Restaurant Chain Grazie Gardens.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Skylark has been developing Grazie Gardens, a new inexpensive Italian restaurant chain, since last year. The company plans to increase the number of shops to 67 by the end of 2002. The company also plans to switch all the remaining Skylark...

Lohmeyer Opens Sandwich Shop.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Lohmeyer, a mid-size meat processing company, has opened the sandwich shop Palette inside Odakyu Hark department store in Tokyo. The company operates 24 delicatessen shops selling mainly ham and sausage in the Tokyo metropolitan area but this...

Freshness Burger Opens Cafe Shop.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Freshness Burger, which operates about 150 hamburger shops all over Japan, has opened the first Freshness Burger Cafe in Shibuya, Tokyo. The cafe offers coffee, latte, caramel macchiato and blood orange soda in three sizes: small (200ml),...

DF Shoei Starts Franchise Spanish Pub Restaurants.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... DF Shoei, direct operator of two Spanish pub restaurants known as Spain Bar in Tokyo, has started a franchise chain of the same establishment. Spain Bar uses foods, interior decoration and tableware from Spain to create the image of a Spanish...

Reins International Starts Charcoal-Grilled Meat and Seafood Restaurants.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Reins International has opened its first Aburi Gyukaku charcoal-grilled meat and seafood restaurant, a variation on its Gyukaku yakiniku (grilled meat) shops. The new site in Tokyo has an area of 121 square meters and 58 seats. Aburi Gyukaku...

Reins International Opens First Gyukaku Grilled Meat Restaurant in Taiwan.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Reins International has opened the first location of its Gyukaku yakiniku (grilled meat) chain in Taiwan. This is the third overseas Gyukaku restaurant (others are in Los Angeles and Hawaii). The management of the restaurant is overseen by...

Kirin Dining Launches Chinese Cafe/Pub Chain.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Kirin Dining, a subsidiary of Kirin Brewery, has opened the first Eishogen Cafe in Shibuya, Tokyo (214 square meters, 78 seats). It offers Chinese alcoholic beverages and is supplied by group company Eishogen, which manufactures and sells...

McDonald's Japan Offers New Items to Top Hamburgers.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... McDonald's Japan has introduced Mac My Menu, a system that lets customers top their burgers with lettuce (30 yen), tomato (30 yen), bacon (two slices, 50 yen) and eggs (50 yen). The new menu is meant to offer more variety to customers and...

McDonald's Japan Opens Cafe Type Shops without Hamburgers.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... McDonald's Japan has opened its first cafe-style shop in Tokyo with an area of 13 square meters, only about one-tenth the size of a regular McDonald's shop. McDonald Cafe & Snack serves only takeout drinks and snacks such as Deluxe Soft Cream...

First Pret a Manger Sandwich Shop in Japan.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... McDonald's Japan Holdings and British sandwich chain Pret a Manger have established Pret a Manger Japan, an equally owned joint venture that has opened its first shop in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo (area 128 square meters including kitchen). The...

Matsuda Kasei Kogyo Liners Make Drums Easier to Clean, Reuse.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Matsuda Kasei Kogyo is known for its New Drum Keeper line of polyethylene-based drum liners. The company is particularly advanced in the manufacture of oversized bags for special uses. New Drum Keeper is made of special PE film 120-200...

MK Creation Re-Engineers Chilled Shipping Corrugated Cardboard.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Eco Cool from MK Creation is a water-repellent corrugated cardboard for shipping chilled items. Thicker than ordinary cardboard intended for that purpose, it includes a liner and special coating plus its adhesive adds to the insulating...

Addition to Shoei Corporation's Neo Pack Line Makes Packing Easier.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Shoei Corporation has added a new item to its Neo Pack series of hanging bags with headers. The new Clean Type will appeal to packagers since its resealable portion is covered with a film that stays attached to the bag even when it is lifted...

Tsukasa Chemical Industry Heavy-Duty Band Wins in Japan Packaging Contest.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Tsukasa Chemical Industry reports that its World Band Circle Core Type, a PP band used for bundling, was one of five winning products in the large and heavy-duty packaging divisions of the 2002 Japan Packaging Contest. Made with a super-thin...

Easy-Peel Film for Tofu Containers from Sun-Tox.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... After a year on the market, the EP Type easy-peel film from Sun-Tox is gathering strong patronage for use with tofu and related products. An olefin-based special resin is blended into the mix and coextruded to form the easy-peel sealant film....

Hashimoto Cloth Releases Wiping Paper Cloth with Bagasse.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Hashimoto Cloth has developed a mixed paper containing bagasse. The product has volume and is much stronger than any other paper wiping cloth product. It is also ecological and cost is low. The product, known as Palper, uses bagasse (fiber...

Sealex Promotes Sales of Security Label.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Sealex is promoting security label sales. The company's original security label has two types (transfer and non-transfer) and the patent is pending. When the package is opened, the transfer type leaves a mark on the surface the label is...

Oto Expands Sales Promotion Area of easy Peel POP Labels.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Oto is promoting sales of Hatte Hagaseru POP ("attach and peel off label") that does not leave any adhesive behind. The product consists of labels with messages such as advertised product, bargain or new product to use as a sales promotion...

Recyclable Waterproof Corrugated Cardboard from Hiroshima Danboru.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Hiroshima Danboru has been selling recyclable corrugated cardboard KPE Danboru. The outside cardboard part of the product is coated with down powder to make it waterproof and heat-insulated. The product was developed by group company Kami...

High Pressure Food Sterilisation.(CGC offers boiled rice meal)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Tokyo based CGC has begun the sale of "Hakkoku Gohan" a boiled rice meal containing a mixture of 8 other grains. The product is unique in that it has been sterilised using an independently developed high pressure sterilisation method that...

GM Modified Tear Free Onions.(House Foods to develop "tears free onion")(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... House Foods have announced the discovery of the enzyme and the associated gene required in the production of tears, opening the possibility for the production of a "tears free onion". While it has been possible up to now to eliminate the...

Allergy Symptom Reducing Green Tea.(Asahi Soft Drinks and Yasaichagyo Kenkyujo to collaborate on green tea product)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Beverage giant Asahi Soft Drinks in conjunction with its subsidiary Yasaichagyo Kenkyujo has announced the development of a green tea product with allergy symptom reducing properties. Good news for the estimated 30 million allergy sufferers...

Toppan Printing Develops Clear Film Alternative to Foil.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Toppan Printing has developed the new GX Film, which contains a PET base with a vapor coating of alumina, as an alternative for pharmaceutical and electronic products currently packed in aluminum foil. The new film weighs just 0.1 grams per...

Tsukishima Kikai Systems Refine Used PET for New Bottles.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Tsukishima Kikai has announced new technology that will work in systems for refining used PET material into terephthalic acid as pure as the virgin substance. The result is that local governments and recycling enterprises, which will be among...

Label Material from Oji Paper, Ojitac Needs no Organic Solvent.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Tomei OPP Film Tack is a transparent labeling material that uses an improved emulsion-based adhesive instead of an organic adhesive for the benefit of the environment. Ordinarily emulsion-based adhesives are vulnerable to water, which causes...

Rokko Engineering Transport Container for Fresh Juice.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Rokko Engineering has developed a refrigerated container for long-distance hauling of fruit juices, milk and other liquids for which temperature management has always been difficult. Developed under the guidance of an Osaka Sangyo University...

Coca-Cola West Japan Fires up Sterilized Production Line.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Coca-Cola West Japan has initiated production of drinks sized 290 - 500 ml at its new sterilized filling line for PET bottles at Kiyama Plant. Because all production processes from formation of the bottle to filling are performed under...

Tamura Machine Labelers for Packages with Irregular Shapes.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Tamura Machine Industry has begun selling new semi-automatic labelers which can wrap irregularly shaped objects such as medicine packages in cellophane and attach tack labels at a specified location. The labels on each of these models can...

Tohcello Announces Water-Based Thin Film.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Tohcello, a subsidiary of Mitsui Chemicals specializing in thin films, has developed a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) film which is about half the thickness of previous films. The film is quickly dissolved by water and breaks up into water and...

Tokyo, Takushoku U Researchers Develop Impact-Resistant Ceramics.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Professors Tsutomu Kagawa of Tokyo University and Hideaki Kasano of Takushoku University have developed a fabrication technique for increasing the impact strength of ceramics and glass by a factor of over 10. Ten-micrometer fibers of alumina...

Nissei ASB Machine Rolls out Fast PET Bottle Machine.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Nissei ASB Machine has developed the fastest two-liter size PET bottle manufacturing machine in the world, able to produce about 4300 of the bottles per hour. Boasting 12 metal molds, the HSO-12L injects resin into the molds and tempers the...

Matsushita Electric, Matsushita Seiko Selling fast, Precise Detector for Bacteria.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Matsushita Electric and Matsushita Seiko are selling a fast and inexpensive counter for bacteria called the Bio-Plorer. It is based on a bacteria-counting system previously developed and marketed by Matsushita Seiko to food packers. Since it...

Takara Announces Liner-Free Labeler.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Takara has beaten several other Japanese labeler manufacturers to the punch in developing a labeler which takes labels without backing paper and is placing it on the market this autumn for a base price of 1.5 million yen. This allows a speed...

Daiwa Can Uses Foamed Heat Insulator for New Bottle Can.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Daiwa Can's New Bottle Can, an aluminum can shaped like a bottle and using a screw-on cap, takes advantage of air bubbles and thick PET film to make even hot drinks comfortable to handle. Recently 160-micrometer-thick nonwovens have been used...

Bubble Wrap from Sakai Chemical Industry Tears by Hand.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... No scissors are needed to cut a new bubble wrap from Sakai Chemical Industry. Non-Cutter Pack is a new variety available in the Minapack line. Coming in 42-meter rolls, it measures 1.2 meters across. The manufacturer engineered Non-Cutter...

Dainippon Printing, Meiho Art Create Pest-Resistant Packaging Technology.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Dainippon Printing, working with Meiho Art, has developed food packaging using a tree oil that naturally repels insects and thus keeps them away from the product inside. The oil-derived repellant, known as Bioprint, is contained in silicon...

Daiwa Can Devises Retort-Ready Variation of New Bottle Can.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... The New Bottle Can, Daiwa Can's solution for protecting consumers' fingers when they are enjoying hot drinks from bottle-shaped aluminum cans, now includes a version that can tolerate 30 minutes of retort sterilization at 125 degrees C. For...

TTC Paper Uses Extracts in Cyclodextrin Capsules to Keep Lunches Moist.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Wasapearl is TTC's solution for keeping boxed lunches sufficiently moist with the help of horseradish and mustard extracts encapsulated with cyclodextrin. The sheet is made with rayon pulp glassine. Despite the extracts, the Wasapearl sheet...

Meiwa Pax Exhibits Container for Simple Microwave Rice Steaming.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Meiwa Pax has given potential customers a taste of the future with the new Kama Irazu container. Exhibited at the recent Tokyo Pack 2002, the plastic container allows users to cook rice from non-prepared to fully ready within 15 minutes by...

Maruzen Paper's New Coating is Anti-Bacterial without Heavy Metal Concerns.(new coated paper is introduced)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Maruzen has created Marugoto Ecolo Kami, an environmentally friendly paper coated with a formula made of soybean and grain extracts and a surface active agent containing no heavy metals. The product is presented as an alternative to paper...

Akebono Sangyo Container Cooks Eggs in Microwave.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Akebono Sangyo has developed a container that cooks eggs perfectly and with great control in the microwave. Users simply add water, put in up to three eggs, and cook for a length of time depending on preferred doneness. The eggs stand...

Asahi Brewery Releases Wilkinson Vodka and Gin in Home-Use 300ml Bottles.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Asahi Brewery, through its subsidiary Nikka Whisky Distilling, has updated the label on Wilkinson Vodka and Wilkinson Gin. The new labels come with the introduction of a new 300ml size in each product for home use. The smaller bottles will...

Okamoto Wrapping Film is Highly Adhesive.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Okamoto is estimating 1.2 billion yen in sales the first fiscal year for Kankyo Omoi High Fit plastic food wrap. Made of polyolefin, the wrap has a name that reflects its eco-friendliness but also suggests its excellent adhesiveness. The film...

Special Pot Brews Extra-Strong Tea, from Jonan Bussan.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Jonan Bussan's Push Pot is a teapot that brews tea to a much greater degree of strength by forcing out more potassium and tannin. The pot is available in three sizes, 300ml to one liter, with prices ranging from 2650 to 3500 yen. Water is...

Risu Pack Fills out Sushi Komachi Container Line.(new container products are introduced)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Risu Pack is filling out its line of sushi containers with new styles and sizes and is marketing the benefits of universal design. The Sushi Komachi series is designed so that the lid will come off easily if simply pushed at two points. The...

Kanemitsu Shoten Expanding Business in Food Trays.(Kanemitsu Shoten is introducing food trays in more markets)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Kanemitsu Shoten, a packaging manufacturer from Fukuyama, Hiroshima, is expanding the number of food trays it offers as well as the geographical area to which it markets. The new products include a combination paper and polypropylene tray...

O-Cello OPP Bag Stands Firm, Resists Fog.(O-Cello introduces new film bag line)(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... O-Cello is marketing O-Cello Pack SY Series, a series of side-seal, bottom-gusset OPP film bags for bringing out the best display effect of produce. The film is treated on both sides to resist fogging, thus protecting the contents from water...

Low Fat Dog Snack.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Osaka based Doggy Man Hayashi has released "Saya" a range of nutritionally balanced, low fat dog snack products that use fish as its principle ingredient. All of the products are rich in DHA said to be important in maintaining brain and other...

Dog Dental Biscuits.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Tokyo based Uni Hartos has released "Aiken Genki Gold Ha No Kenko Biscuit" a hard type, nutritionally balanced chicken base biscuit with added fibre designed to remove tartar and plaque build up. Parsley and mint oil has also been added to...

Exclusive Goldfish Food.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Fuji Seifun has released - Chanko Series - a range of function fish feeds for gold fish varieties with bulbous eyes and heads. The feed has been formulated so as not to dirty pond or tank water. Kore Yori Sanyaku - A low fat fish feed...

New Breakfast Cereal from Kellogg Japan.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Pooh-sanno Hachimitsu Daisuki, from Kellogg Japan, is a breakfast cereal featuring Winnie-the-Pooh, a favoriate character among the very young crowd, on the package. The product consists of a creal which is made with whole wheat and contains...

New Butter-Flavored Seasoning from Nippon Shokken.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Hotate-to Ika-no Wafu Butter Yaki-no Tare, from Nippon Shokken, is a soy-based sauce which contains butter and is intended for making butter-flavored squid, scalp or mushroom dishes. A 100g aluminum pouch costs 170 yen.

New Pasta Sauces from Nagatanien.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... The Branch Pasta series from Nagatanien is a line of pasta sauces that consists of a liquid sauce and a powdered seasoning which contains ingredients. The series includes two varieties - "Peperoncino" (21g) which includes garlic and basil and...

"Meiji Baby Food Akachan Mura: Kabocha" from Meiji Milk Products.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... "Meiji Baby Food Akachan Mura: Kabocha" ("Meiji Baby Foods in Baby Village: Pumpkin"), from Meiji Milk Products, is one of the new baby foods in the Meiji Baby Foods in Baby Village Series. The others are "Meiji Baby Foods in Baby Village:...

New Cracker from Lotte.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Lotte Sakutto Cracker <Gouda & Parmesan Aji>, from Lotte, is a multi-layered cracker which is kneaded with gouda and parmesan cheeses and features a rich cheese flavor and unique light texture. The price is 200 yen per pack of 6 bags (1 bag:...

New Cracker from Yamazaki-Nabisco.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Nabisco Tasto, from Yamazaki-Nabisco, is a cracker which uses wholesome whole wheat flour and sesame seeds and sandwiches almond cream made by boiling down almond and sugar. The price is 200 yen for a stand-up pack of 2 bags (1 bag: 9...

Two New Healthy Cookies from Tohato.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Tohato has launched two new wholesome cookie products. "Tohato 100-ten Manten Butter Aji" is a butter-flavored cookie fortified with 10 kinds of vitamins and calcium. It contains 60mg of calcium per piece (10g) and includes magnesium to aid...

New Stick-Shaped Cake from Bourbon.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Bourbon Softick, from Bourbon, is a stick-shaped soft cake sandwiching chocolate sprinkled with cruncy coarse-ground cacao beans. The price is 150 yen for a pack of 7 sticks.

New Thin Crepe from Bourbon.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Bourbon Chuel, from Bourbon, is a thin cocoa-flavored crepe stuffed with full-bodied milk chocolate. The price is 150 yen per pack of 4 bags (1 bag: 4 pieces).

New Winter Only Petit Biscuit from Bourbon.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Bourbon Petit Bit Kuchidoke, from Bourbon, is a winter-only small-size biscuit which has a center of melt-in-your-mouth chocolate. The price is 100 yen for a 53g pack of 11 pieces.

New Soybean Milk from Ako Kasei.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Kodawarino Tonyu, from Ako Kasei, is a non-cholesterol soybean milk made from salt-removed deep-sea water and 100% top grade domestic soybeans. It is rich in vegetable protein, lecithin, saponin. vitamin E and isoflavone which helps to...

New Health Food from Ajinomoto.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Ajinomoto amino VITAL Kanpai lkilki, from Ajinomoto, is a powder-form health food that contains 2800mg of amino acids (alanine and glutamine) and helps maintain good health. It comes in a 3g sachet and 14 sachers are packaged in a box. The...

New Food Supplements from Kobayashi Pharmaceutical.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Kobayashi Pharmaceutical has launched three new capsule-form nutritional supplements. Each capsule of "Nokogiri Yashi" consists of 160mg of saw palmetto which controls production of dihydrotestosterone that causes prostatic hypertrophy, 25mg...

New Frozen Green Juice from Kewsai.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Kewsai Sen'i Aojiru Tsuhji, from Kewsai, is a frozen green juice consisting of organic kale, kidachi aloe (aloe arborescens), oligosaccharide and 50 billion of inactive lactic acid bacteria. The product, which is mainly targeted at young...

New Amino Acid Supplement Drink Served Hot from Kirin Beverage.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Kirin HOT amino Supli, from Kirin Beverage, is an amino acid-supplement beverage intended for serving hot. It contains 500mg of amino acids per 280ml. A 280ml PET bottle costs 130 yen.

New Health Drink from Japan Tobacco.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... JT Bee-Up, from Japan Tobacco, is a wholesome beverage that contains royal jelly, propolis and honey. A 500ml PET bottle is priced at 140 yen.

New Specific-Effect Health Food from Calpis.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Calpis Ameal S Handy Type from Calpis is a tablet-form specific-effect health food permitted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to indicate its specific health-promoting effect on the package. It contains "Lactotripeptide" which...

New Canned Cocktails from Asahi Breweries.(Brief Article)
December 25, 2002... Asahi Breweries has launched two new items - Moscow Mule (Alc. 6%) and Cassis Orange (Alc. 4%) - as part of its "Cocktail Partner" series of canned cocktails. The products come in 350ml cans (140 yen) and 500ml cans (190 yen).