Rei Kojima– Author –
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How to Store Dried Tomatoes: Tips for Room Temperature, Refrigeration, and Freezing, Plus Best-Before Dates
The basic approach to storing dried tomatoes is to use room temperature, refrigeration, and freezing as appropriate. Unopened, fully dried types can be kept at room temperature for six months or more, but once opened they absorb moisture and change in quality, so the rule is to put them in an airtight container and move them to the fridge. Frozen, they keep for 3–4 months... -
How to choose commercial dried tomatoes | Quality and OEM case studies
When sourcing commercial dried tomatoes, organizing the comparison along five axes—growing region, variety, processing type, lot capacity, and supply system—is fundamental. The options are wide, from Italian sun-dried products to domestic makers' low-temperature-dried products, and for restaurant pasta sauces, bakery ingredients... -
ドライトマトの選び方｜国産・無添加・食塩不使用
国産ドライトマトを選ぶときは、「国産か輸入か」「無添加か（食塩・砂糖・保存料の有無）」「有機JASなど認証の有無」「加工タイプ」の4つのチェック項目を押さえるだけで、買ったあとの満足度が大きく変わります。最近の売場では無添加や国産表示を前面... -
Drip Pack Gift OEM: A Guide to 5 Filter Types and Specifications by Use
Drip pack gift OEM is a coffee gift product that companies and shops can roll out under their own brand. In the industry, the names "drip bag" and "drip pack" are used interchangeably, but both refer to a product form in which a single serving of ground beans is filled into an individually packaged filter bag. Small-lot... -
How to Develop Vegetable Tea for Business People: Product Planning That Captures Health Demand
For today's business people whose work centers on desk work, maintaining health is a major challenge. As more people struggle with a lack of vegetables and a lack of exercise, demand is rising for functional beverages that let you easily supplement nutrition. In particular, the new category of "vegetable tea" combines the nutrition of conventional tea and vegetables... -
Flavored coffee OEM | Design guide for beans and adding aroma
Flavored coffee OEM is a format for contract-manufacturing an original coffee with aromas—vanilla, hazelnut, caramel, chocolate, yuzu, Japanese ingredients, and the like—entrusted to a roaster or coffee specialist maker. From label changes based on off-the-shelf products to bean selection, roast level, and flavor... -
Flavored Tea Development: Differentiating Aroma with 3 Elements × 4 Axes
Flavored tea is a product category that adds the aromas of fruits, herbs, spices, flowers, and the like to a base tea leaf such as black, green, oolong, or white tea. The basic approach is to differentiate through three elements—base tea leaf, flavoring ingredient, and method of imparting aroma—and demand exists for D2C, cafés, gifts, and tourist souvenirs... -
Dried Vegetable Mix OEM: A Guide to Formulation Design and Major-Company Track Records
Dried-vegetable mix OEM is a contract manufacturing service that blends multiple dried vegetables to match a product concept and sells them under your own brand. It is easy to adopt for products reconstituted with hot water or water—instant miso soup, soup, cup noodles, baby food, emergency food, and takikomi rice—and... -
How to start a health tea OEM | How to build a brand chosen for functional beverages
With health consciousness rising now, the functional beverage market continues its rapid expansion. Health tea in particular is supported by many consumers as an easily adopted daily health habit, and the 2024 market for foods with function claims is projected to top 600 billion yen. In such a huge market, one's own... -
The Complete Guide to OEM Manufacturing of Domestic Dried Vegetables | A Thorough Explanation from Small-Lot Support to How to Choose
As awareness of food safety rises, demand for domestically grown dried vegetables is rapidly expanding. As of 2025 in particular, additive-free products that use no food additives and OEM manufacturing services that can handle small lots are strongly sought by small and medium-sized companies and new entrants. Conventionally, mass production was... -
Choosing a Food OEM Prototyping Partner: 8 Criteria and the Practice of On-Site Auditing
Choosing a food OEM partner is the work of discerning, at the prototyping stage, a manufacturer's areas of strength, quality control systems, know-how, production capacity, and inventory handling. A manufacturer that appears often in rankings is not necessarily the right fit for you, and "how they tailor formulation proposals," "bridging from prototype to mass production," and handling trouble... -
The Going Rate for Food OEM Prototyping Costs and 10 Points for Cutting Costs
Food OEM prototyping costs generally range from 10,000–50,000 yen for powder-based products, 20,000–100,000 yen for beverages and seasonings, and 50,000–200,000 yen for snacks and baked goods. Because prototyping incurs initial costs on the manufacturer's side for equipment operation, raw material procurement, and formulation design, understanding in detail what costs how much before signing a contract... -
Kansai Food OEM: 6 Steps to Making a New Product and Subsidies
The strengths of making a new product with a Kansai food OEM lie in the industrial clusters in each of the six prefectures—Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo (Kobe), Nara, Wakayama, and Shiga—Kinki's food research institutions, the logistics network of Hanshin, Kintetsu, Kansai Airport, and the Port of Kobe, and the diversity of regional food culture. Prepared dishes, seasonings, health foods, confectionery, beverages, packaging... -
The complete guide to powder-processing OEM in Kansai | Strengths by area and how to choose small-lot-friendly manufacturers
For those looking for powder-processing OEM in the Kansai area, we explain the features of Kansai's food-processing bases centered on Osaka, Kyoto, and Hyogo, and the points for selecting a maker. Kansai is an area where the food manufacturing industry has clustered since long ago. The processing technology represented by Osaka's flour-food culture, and Kyoto's traditional ingredients... -
The complete guide to succeeding at PB development with vegetable powder | Small lots supported
Vegetable powder is an ingredient made by drying and powdering vegetables, combining shelf stability with concentrated nutrition. This characteristic is a strong weapon for food manufacturers, retailers, and D2C operators who want to launch private brand (PB) products from small lots. Fresh vegetables have waste loss and purchasing fluctuation... -
Vegetable sweets OEM | The complete guide to designing color, flavor, and nutrition with vegetable powder
Using vegetable powder in sweets lets you add the natural color and flavor of kabocha, purple sweet potato, beet, spinach, carrot, and more without artificial colorings or food dye. Just mix it with cake flour, milk, and eggs to give homemade cookies, cakes, bread, macarons, and ice cream a "with vegetables" touch... -
Make Baby Food Easy with Vegetable Powder: Safe Uses and Recipes by Age
Vegetable powder is a handy ingredient that both saves time and boosts nutrition when making baby food. Choosing a domestically grown, additive-free powder lets you incorporate vegetables such as kabocha, spinach, carrot, and lotus root little by little to match your baby's age, while being mindful of powderiness and allergy risk... -
The complete guide to choosing vegetable powder: also explaining the difference between commercial and household use
野菜パウダーは、野菜を乾燥させて粉末状にした食品素材で、業務用の原料として製菓・飲料・スープ・離乳食・介護食・ペットフードまで幅広く使われています。同じ「野菜パウダー」でも、製造方法（熱風乾燥・フリーズドライ・真空乾燥）、粒度（メッシュ... -
Additive-free design with vegetable powder | How to choose natural colorants for use as coloring food
天然色素として野菜パウダーを使うと、食紅や食用色素を加えずに、素材名だけで色と風味を製品に乗せられます。ビーツの真紅、かぼちゃの黄、ほうれん草の緑、紫芋のマゼンタなど、商品原材料欄に「ビーツパウダー」「かぼちゃパウダー」と書けるのが最大... -
How to use commercial vegetable powder | Uses at restaurants and storage
Commercial vegetable powder is a raw material for handling the color, flavor, and nutrition of vegetables at room temperature—used by restaurants, cafés, hotels, school-meal businesses, and food makers. Compared with fresh vegetables, it excels in shelf life, work efficiency, and yield, and can reduce sourcing variation and disposal loss, making it a standard material in commercial kitchens and workshops... -
The Secret to Vegetable Dashi Is Dried Vegetables! Tips for Drawing Out Umami
Combining vegetable dashi with dried vegetables is a use that makes it easier to achieve both umami density and time savings compared with drawing dashi from fresh vegetables. Because their water has been removed, dried vegetables have relatively concentrated flavor compounds such as glutamic acid and aspartic acid, which dissolve directly into the soaking liquid. Agriture's... -
Plant-Based Vegetable Dashi: An Introduction to Umami Compounds and Uses
Vegetable dashi as a plant-based stock is a dashi drawn from the umami and aroma of vegetables, using no animal ingredients whatsoever. The amino acids (glutamic acid, aspartic acid) contained in onion, carrot, celery, mushrooms, and kombu, along with the nucleotide guanylic acid and vegetable-derived sugars, dissolve out... -
How to Make Vegetable Dashi and Vege-Broth: The Difference and Tips for Using Vegetable Scraps
Vegetable dashi is a stock drawn using only the umami and aroma of vegetables, with no animal ingredients. As the amino acids and sugars of onion, carrot, celery, and mushrooms dissolve out, a gentle sweetness and mild umami emerge. Because it contains no animal ingredients, it suits vegan, vegetarian, and halal... -
How to start a yakuzen tea OEM | A product development guide that makes use of the wisdom of Eastern medicine
A yakuzen tea OEM is a system that lets you plan and sell an original health tea—blending crude drugs and tea leaves based on the ideas of Eastern medicine—without owning your own manufacturing equipment. Because you can outsource everything to a manufacturer—blend design, raw material procurement, manufacturing, and packaging—you can achieve differentiated health... -
[For Beginners] What Is a Vegetarian? An Explanation of the Types, Foods They Can't Eat, and Market Expansion
ベジタリアンの定義と由来 ベジタリアン（菜食主義者）とは、肉や魚介類などの動物性食品を避け、野菜・果物・穀物・豆類を中心とした食生活を送る人のことです。現在では健康志向や環境意識の高まりから、世界的にベジタリアン人口が増加しています。 食... -
What's the Difference Between Freeze-Dried and Dried Vegetables? A Thorough Comparison Choosing by Use, Cost, and Lot
"Dried vegetables," drawing attention against the backdrop of rising health consciousness and stockpiling needs. Among them, the properties differ greatly by manufacturing method between freeze-drying and warm-air drying (air-drying). They look similar, but their inner workings are surprisingly little known. The difference between the two and their benefits... -
Medicinal tea OEM is a system that lets you plan and sell health teas combining tea leaves, crude drugs, and medicinal-cuisine (yakuzen) materials—based on the theories of the four qi and five flavors, meridian tropism, and qi-blood-body fluids in Traditional Chinese Medicine—without your own facilities. This article explains the difference between medicinal tea and herbal or health tea, the four product types of seasonal, constitutional, symptom, and vegetable-yakuzen, the practicalities of raw material selection and blend design, how to choose an OEM manufacturer, 7 leading companies handling medicinal tea and health tea OEM, the manufacturing process and lead time, and sales strategies for mail-order and cafés—delivered by Kyoto-born dried vegetable OEM company Agriture, drawing on its insights from operating a yakuzen media outlet.
本レポートは日本国内を中心に乾燥野菜関連産業の市場状況やトレンドを弊社視点で記載しました。また、各項目に弊社の考察を入れております。乾燥野菜をはじめとするドライ食品を使った商品開発にお役立てください。 また、乾燥野菜市場への関心がある方は... -
Forecasting the vegetable powder market in 2030! An explanation of growth fields and the latest trends
野菜パウダーの市場は、業務用原料・健康食品・機能性飲料・ベビーフード・ペットフード・コラボ商品の開発まで、ここ数年で裾野が大きく広がっています。食品メーカーからの「規格外野菜を活用したい」「健康経営や福利厚生で使える野菜素材を探している... -
The Health Effects of Dried Fruit: A Summary of Benefits, Nutrition, and Cautions on Sugar
Dried fruit, sometimes imagined as a healthy light snack, is characterized by being eatable anytime and providing easy nutrition, thanks to drying fresh fruit to raise its shelf life. Such dried fruit has long been beloved worldwide, used as emergency rations and portable food... -
A Thorough Explanation of the Difference Between Candied Dried Fruit and the Sugar-Free Type
Dried fruit, as a food that concentrates fruit's nutrition such as vitamins and dietary fiber, is spreading in popularity alongside rising health consciousness. But even under the single name "dried fruit," there are broadly two types of manufacturing method: the "candied type" and the "sugar-free..." -
Is Dried Fruit Good for Dieting? A Thorough Explanation of Calories and the Right Way to Eat It
Dried fruit is popular as a "natural snack," but many people may feel anxious about whether it's okay to eat while dieting. Because it's small in appearance but concentrated in nutrition, there are doubts such as "isn't it high in calories?" and "won't eating too much make me gain weight..." -
Where Can You Buy Dried Fruit? A Thorough Explanation of the Characteristics of Each Source and How to Choose
Dried fruit is a popular food that concentrates fruit's vitamins and dietary fiber. Demand is expanding as a snack, a cooking ingredient, and even a gift. But when it comes to "where can you actually buy it?", from convenience stores and supermarkets to imported-food shops such as Muji and Kaldi, and further... -
How to Make Dried Fruit Products via OEM: A Complete Guide from Planning to Manufacturing
Against the backdrop of rising health consciousness and gift demand, the dried fruit market continues to grow. More companies aiming to roll out products under their own brand are considering OEM manufacturing, but specialized knowledge is needed for choosing raw materials, manufacturing methods, and partner selection. This article covers, for first-time dried fruit... -
Why Dried Vegetables Now? 5 Benefits Beyond Just Convenient and Nutrient-Concentrated
「毎日ちゃんと野菜を食べたい」「1日分の350gの野菜を食べないと」そう思ってはいても、仕事に家事に育児に追われて、気づけば1日が終わっている。そんな方にこそ、いま改めて届けたいのが「乾燥野菜」という選択肢です。 乾燥野菜は切り干し大根でイメー... -
How to Choose Dried Goods, Taught by a Pro | 5 Important Points and How to Tell Them Apart
乾物は、食材を乾燥させて保存性を高めた食品です。昆布や椎茸、豆類などの伝統的なものから、乾燥野菜やドライフルーツといった新しいカテゴリーまで、実に多様な種類があります。 乾物の最大の魅力は、なんといっても保存性の高さでしょう。常温で長期保... -
How to start vegetarian OEM | Ingredient selection and product planning for vegan support
ベジタリアンやビーガン（ヴィーガン）向けの食品をOEMで開発したい。でも、原材料の制限や製造工程の配慮がどこまで必要か分からない——そんな企業の声が増えています。この記事でわかること： ベジタリアンとビーガンの食事制限の違い（原材料設計に直結... -
A Guide to Using Dried Vegetables as a Pet Food Raw Material
ペットの健康を考えるうえで、野菜の栄養を取り入れたいと考える飼い主は増えています。しかし、生野菜は日持ちせず調理の手間もかかるため、毎日の食事に取り入れるのは簡単ではありません。そこで注目されているのが、保存性と利便性に優れた「乾燥野菜... -
6 Reasons Dried Vegetable Gifts Are Well-Received and Tips for Choosing Them
Dried vegetable gifts, drawing attention alongside rising health consciousness. Lately their popularity as gifts has been surging. What is the appeal of this new kind of gift, which sets itself apart from conventional sweets and consumables? This article covers the reasons dried vegetable gifts get chosen and well-received products... -
How to Make Dried Vegetables | Tips for Easy Home-Dried Vegetables and Recipe Uses
乾燥野菜は、水分を飛ばすことで保存性を高め、野菜の栄養や旨みを凝縮した便利な食材です。調理のしやすさ、常温保存の手軽さから、業務用・家庭用ともに市場が拡大しており、OEM素材としても注目されています。 その一方で「乾燥野菜にブドウ糖が使われ... -
A Complete Guide to the Pros and Cons of Dried Goods: Uses Explained Too
Dried goods are foods made by evaporating the water from ingredients through methods such as sun-drying. They are said to have already been used as far back as the Jomon and Yayoi periods, and are deeply rooted in Japanese food culture. Amid Japan's distinctive climate—hot and humid in summer, cold and dry in winter—in an age without refrigerators, ingredients... -
乾物の海外展開事例から学ぶ成功の秘訣と市場戦略
乾物は日本の食文化を代表する伝統食材でありながら、海外市場ではまだ十分に認知されていない宝石のような存在です。保存性に優れ、栄養価が高く、調理の幅を広げる特性を持つ乾物は、実は海外展開において大きな可能性を秘めています。 昆布、椎茸、胡麻... -
How to choose novelties that strengthen corporate branding | 7 points and adoption cases
Novelties don’t lead to corporate branding just by being handed out. The essential value is having recipients “remember you” and “empathize.” In reality, however, cases where cheap ballpoint pens are handed out in bulk due to budget and remembered by no one are not few... -
How to Put Off-Spec Vegetables to Use in Business | Clearly Explained with Upcycling Cases
"This tomato can't be shipped—its calyx is a bit cracked." With harvested vegetables before them, such words are exchanged among production sites not infrequently. Vegetables that fall out of distribution based solely on "shape" or "size," even though the flavor, aroma, and the effort of growing them should be the same... -
Seven points to avoid failure when choosing a domestic dried vegetable manufacturer
乾燥野菜は食品加工や外食産業において、安定した品質と保存性の高さから欠かせない存在です。特に国産素材・無添加志向の高まりにより、「国産乾燥野菜」の需要が拡大しています。 一方で、「思ったより品質が安定しない」「納期対応が遅い」「契約条件が... -
Peace of mind even for first-time food OEM! Tips for choosing a manufacturer and ordering without going wrong
Food OEM is a system for creating original-brand products by entrusting manufacturing to a specialized manufacturer without owning your own factory. With the expansion of online mail order and D2C business, it is used widely from sole proprietors to major companies. However, if you choose the wrong OEM manufacturer, cost overruns... -
Why dried vegetables and dried fruit suit OEM for sole proprietors: introducing small-lot cases and points of success
ECやSNSを通じて自分のオリジナル製品を販売したい個人事業主にとって、食品OEMは有効な手段です。 初めてOEMにチャレンジする方にとって、小ロットの乾燥野菜やドライフルーツは在庫リスクを抑えながら市場開拓を進められるためおすすめのカテゴリです。 ... -
Case studies of vegetable powder use | Success patterns by industry and a framework for adoption decisions
野菜パウダーの活用事例は、業界ごとに成功パターンが大きく異なります。麺・スープ系の色彩強化、スイーツ・パンの生地練込、飲料・ドリンクの機能性訴求、惣菜・レトルトの栄養補強、ノベルティ・キャンペーンの話題作り——商品開発者が狙う効果で、採用... -
A Complete Guide to Making Original PB Foods: The Steps from Planning to Manufacturing and Sales
Have you ever harbored the wish to make a food under your own brand? Entrants from other industries—retail, restaurants, startups—have become conspicuous. Behind this are the expansion of the food OEM market and an environment where you can now prototype even from small quantities... -
The Complete Guide to Choosing a Filling OEM | Points for Selecting a Contractor Without Regret
食品OEM市場は今、かつてない成長を遂げています。小売業、飲食業、スタートアップなど異業種からの参入が相次ぎ、「自社ブランド商品を作りたい」という声があります。しかし、充填加工OEMの委託先選びで失敗すると、品質トラブルや納期遅延、予算超過な... -
What Are the Benefits of Contract Food Processing? | Comparison with In-House Manufacturing and Points for Use
食品業界で新規事業を立ち上げたい。自社ブランドの商品を作りたい。そんな想いを抱いている方にとって、「食品委託加工」は強力な選択肢となります。 しかし、初めて委託加工を検討する際には不安もつきものです。「本当にコストメリットがあるのか」「品...
