Food OEM– category –

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...

The definition and origins of vegetarianism. A vegetarian is someone who avoids animal-based foods such as meat and seafood and centers their diet on vegetables, fruit, grains, and legumes. Today, amid rising health and environmental awareness, the vegetarian population is growing worldwide. Food...

This report describes the market conditions and trends of the dried-vegetable-related industry, centered on Japan, from our perspective. We've also included our own analysis for each item. Please use it in developing products using dried vegetables and other dried foods. And for those interested in the dried-vegetable market...

The market for vegetable powder has expanded greatly in the past few years, reaching from commercial ingredients and health foods to functional beverages, baby food, pet food, and collaboration products. From food makers we hear "we want to use out-of-spec vegetables" and "we're looking for a vegetable ingredient for health management or employee benefits"...

ドライフルーツのOEMは、果実の乾燥加工から袋詰めまでを製造委託し、自社ブランドで販売する仕組みです。設備を持たなくても商品を持てる一方、乾燥野菜や菓子のOEMとは原価の決まり方が大きく違います。 違いの正体は歩留まりです。果実は水分が8割以上...

We want to develop food for vegetarians and vegans through OEM. But we're not sure how far raw-material restrictions and production-process considerations need to go—we're hearing more of these voices from companies. What you'll learn in this article: the difference in dietary restrictions between vegetarian and vegan (directly tied to raw-material design...

Dried goods, a representative traditional ingredient of Japanese food culture, are like a gem still not fully recognized in overseas markets. With superior shelf life, high nutritional value, and qualities that broaden the range of cooking, dried goods in fact hold great potential for overseas expansion. Kombu, shiitake, sesame...

For sole proprietors who want to sell their own original products through EC and SNS, food OEM is an effective means. For those taking on OEM for the first time, small-lot dried vegetables and dried fruit are a recommended category, as they let you develop the market while keeping inventory risk low. ...

Use cases for vegetable powder differ greatly in their success patterns by industry. Color reinforcement in noodles and soups, kneading into dough for sweets and bread, functional appeal in beverages and drinks, nutritional fortification of prepared foods and retort products, buzz-creation in novelties and campaigns—the adoption depends on the effect the product developer is aiming for...

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 food OEM market is now enjoying unprecedented growth. Companies from other industries — retail, food service, startups, and more — are entering one after another, with voices saying "we want to make our own private-brand products." But if you fail in choosing a contractor for filling-and-processing OEM, you can face quality trouble, delivery delays, budget overruns...

You want to launch a new business in the food industry. You want to make your own brand's products. For those with such ambitions, "food contract manufacturing" becomes a powerful option. However, when first considering contract manufacturing, worries come with the territory. "Is there really a cost advantage?" "How much...

As the food OEM market keeps expanding, many processing manufacturers face a new challenge. Through the conventional trade shows and referrals alone, it's become harder to connect efficiently with companies eager to place orders. Especially as entrants from other industries—retail, foodservice, startups—increase, "our own br..."

Alongside rising health consciousness, interest in superfoods is expanding worldwide. Among them, moringa—called a "nutrient-rich tree"—is drawing attention from both its high nutritional value and sustainability. Moringa is a plant native to northwestern India, containing vitamin A, vitamin...

Alongside rising health consciousness, the functional food market is expanding rapidly. At its core are the nutrient-rich raw materials called "superfoods." A superfood is a food with excellent nutritional balance that contains many kinds of beneficial components, or one in which a particular beneficial component stands out...

Alongside rising health consciousness, interest in superfoods is expanding rapidly. Among them, moringa—called a "nutrient-rich tree"—contains a wide range of nutrients such as vitamin A, vitamin C, calcium, iron, and amino acids, and is drawing attention as functional foods, powder products, and green-juice-type...

Dried fruit, whose popularity is rising as a healthy snack and natural ingredient. However, most products distributed in the domestic market are overseas-grown and sugar-added. In fact, “domestic” and “sugar-free” dried fruit is still a limited presence. Why domestic...

Also searched for as “dried fruit black tea,” “edible tea” is a group of products that pair dried fruit with teas such as black tea, rooibos, and herbal tea; you pour hot water to enjoy the aroma and taste, then eat the fruit itself at the end. Apple, mandarin orange, strawberry...

Freeze-dried strawberry is a commercial ingredient adopted in confectionery, baking, granola, chocolate, and gifts. Because it rapidly freezes 90%-water strawberries and then dries them by vacuum sublimation, it becomes lightweight and long-term-storable while retaining color, aroma, and shape. When choosing for commercial use, shape, raw material...

Freeze-drying processing cost ranges vary greatly by the material's moisture content, yield, lot scale, shape (whole / slice / dice / powder), and packaging specification. Finished-product types (miso soup, soup, zenzai) run 80–500 yen per serving, and material types (freeze-dried strawberry, fruit powder...

Strawberries are fruit prized for their vivid color and sweet-tart flavor, but the drawback is that they don't keep. What draws attention there is the method of drying strawberries for long-term storage. Diverse drying technologies exist—freeze-drying, sun-drying, oven, dried-fruit maker—and each...

The first snag in placing an OEM order for freeze-drying processing is the minimum-lot wall. For fruits such as strawberry and mango, it's common to require an order of around 500kg of fresh raw material, which becomes a major hurdle for prototyping-stage small D2C and SME manufacturers. This article covers, for material...

Freeze-drying is a drying technology whose adoption is spreading in confectionery, beverages, nutritional foods, and instant foods. Unlike hot-air drying, it sublimates and removes only the moisture without heating, so the material's original color, aroma, and shape tend to remain—freeze-dried strawberry, miso soup, zenzai, and other "hot water or..."

Fruit powder is an ingredient made by powdering fruits such as strawberry, mango, blueberry, apple, pear, yuzu, and banana. In confectionery, sweets, drinks, and nutritional foods, for formulations where fresh fruit or flesh is hard to use (dough or cream where you don't want to add moisture, products premised on heating or long-term storage...

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Freeze-dried strawberry (slice) is an ingredient made by cutting strawberries to a uniform thickness (2–5mm) and then freeze-drying them. Being thin and easy to top with, and with the cross-section pattern vividly retained, it's used for products that "show on the surface"—chocolate, granola, baked goods, latte art, premium cereal, and more...

Freeze-dried strawberry (dice) is an ingredient made by dicing strawberries into uniform sizes and then freeze-drying them. With uniform pieces easy to knead and mix into dough, it's the "put inside" type for ice cream, cookies, pound cake, granola, cereal bars, and more...

Wanting to source commercial vegetable powder in small lots—this is a challenge common to a wide range of businesses: restaurants, food manufacturers, EC operators, confectionery workshops, and more. The unit-price benefit of bulk sourcing is appealing, but considering inventory risk, loss at the prototyping stage, and cash flow, “first, at a scale of about 5–50 kg...

The Types and Classification of Japan's Negi | Broadly Divided into 3 Lineages. Negi is a vegetable essential to the Japanese table, but its varieties are astonishingly diverse. From what's sold as "naga-negi" at supermarkets, to the Kyoto heirloom vegetable "Kujo negi," to Gunma Prefecture's "Shimonita negi," and even Western leeks...

Right now, product development that makes use of “regional individuality” is drawing attention. Among these, foods using heirloom vegetables and Kyoto vegetables are strongly supported for the gift market and inbound-oriented products, thanks to their visual beauty and rarity. Especially now, with inbound tourists increasing, region...

野菜を毎日しっかり摂ることは大切と分かっていても、調理の手間や保存の難しさから、忙しい日々の中でつい後回しになりがちです。そんな食生活を支える食材として注目されているのが「野菜パウダー」です。野菜を粉末状にすることで、水分が抜けてかさが...

Gift food OEM using Kyoto ingredients is a field that lets you add the value of the “Kyoto brand” to products—value that product development in other regions cannot deliver. In addition to Kyoto vegetables such as Kujo green onion, Shogoin daikon, Kamo eggplant, and Manganji pepper, and up to the pickles, tsukudani, Kyoto sweets, and dashi that Kyoto’s food culture has nurtured, ingredients...

Powder processing of Kyoto vegetables is one of the few options that lets you translate a regional brand into a product at the raw-material level. Kujo green onion, Manganji pepper, Shogoin daikon, Kyo-kurenai carrot, Mizuo yuzu—the heirloom vegetables Kyoto has long nurtured excel in every respect: color, aroma, and story. Food OEM...

Vegetable paste is a food ingredient made by heating and grinding fresh vegetables into a paste (a smooth, semi-solid form). Its high moisture content gives it a mellow mouthfeel, and it is used in sauces, baby food, sweets, and dressings. On the other hand, vegetable powder, dried vegetables, pi...

Getting plenty of vegetables every day is the foundation of health. But in reality, many people can't get enough vegetables for reasons such as "I'm too busy to spend time cooking," "my kids dislike vegetables and won't eat them," or "I just don't like the taste." Against that backdrop...

Dried Kujo Negi powder is a commercial raw material made by drying and finely powdering the Kyoto heirloom vegetable "Kujo negi." Compared with white negi types, it has a gentler aroma and stronger sweetness, with a vivid green retained all the way to the leaf tips—it is adopted in food OEM for topping instant noodles, furikake, and adding color and aroma to baked-good dough...

The strength of requesting ingredient-processing OEM in Kyoto lies in access to Kyoto vegetables, heirloom vegetables, and Kyoto-grown ingredients, and in a quality-control system backed by the culture of long-established makers and artisans. By combining processing techniques such as drying, powdering, and extract extraction with Kyoto-grown ingredients, you get something beyond mere OEM manufacturing—a...

Commercial Kujo negi distributes "Kujo negi," one of the traditional vegetables that represents Kyoto, in three types—fresh, frozen, and dried—as a raw material for ramen shops, food manufacturers, boxed-lunch factories, and the like to use stably. To make the most of its distinctive sweetness and aroma and deep green, the optimal form for each use...

With the arrival of winter, fragrant yuzu colors the Japanese table. In hot-pot ponzu, as a scent for clear soups, as yuzu tea. Its refreshing aroma and refined tartness are deeply rooted in Japanese food culture. But when you pick one up at the supermarket, have you ever felt this question? "Whi...

Do you know the success story of Umaji Village in Kochi Prefecture? A small village with a population of fewer than 1,000 achieved annual sales of 3 billion yen with yuzu processed products. Overcoming the crisis of forestry's decline, it accomplished a miraculous revival through product development that made the most of local resources. Behind this success lay meticulous product planning...

"Yuzu," the scent of Japan that the world is watching. Did you know this yuzu is beloved worldwide? This aromatic citrus, cultivated mainly in the Shikoku region including Kochi and Tokushima Prefectures, is now establishing an international brand as "Yuzu." Along with the washoku boom, its overseas recognition...

Do you know the importance of knowing yuzu's harvest season? Yuzu is one of Japan's representative aromatic citrus fruits, and its refreshing aroma and refined tartness are indispensable to cooking. But did you know that getting the harvest timing wrong greatly diminishes its taste and aroma? In fact, yuzu has...

冬の訪れとともに、私たちの食卓を彩るゆず。 その爽やかな香りと上品な酸味は、鍋料理のポン酢や柚子茶として親しまれています。香りは主に果皮にあり、果汁とはまた違った使い方ができるのがゆずの魅力です。 本記事では、ゆずの種類や香り・風味の特徴...

Selecting safe ingredients for developing a treat that people and pets can eat together. Under the concept of “something people and dogs can eat together every day,” we carefully selected safe ingredients for treat development together with One’s Daily, which makes additive-free treats. Furthermore, so people and pets alike can enjoy...

Dried vegetables adopted at a topping bar for choosing the future. OYAOYA dried vegetables were adopted at Hoshi no Kitchen inside the “ITOCHU SDGs STUDIO” in Kita-Aoyama, Tokyo. A feature is incorporating sustainable ingredients into classic menus familiar to everyone from children to adults. Dried...

A dried vegetable assortment set perfect for “Nissin Raoh.” For Nissin Foods Co., Ltd., to coincide with “Food Loss Reduction Day” on October 30, we had them adopt a “dried vegetable assortment set” perfect for the company’s flagship product “Nissin Raoh.” Adoption details: on Food Loss Reduction Day...

Dried vegetables take the lead! Creating recipes for “dishes you’ll want to eat once a week.” At “Chefon,” an online cooking class operated by Kai Corporation, we created video and recipe content for all 8 “dishes you’ll want to eat once a week” using dried vegetables with concentrated umami, proposed by Michelin one-star “Ichirin” owner Mikizo Hashimoto...

Trade shows that give a full view of the entire supply chain—from raw material sourcing to manufacturing and import/export—are held one after another, becoming a place industry insiders can’t miss for business meetings and discovering trends. But with so many trade shows held, “which event to attend” and “what you can gain...

Exhibiting at a trade show brings great effect in acquiring new customers and improving awareness. But for beginners, it’s often unnerving not knowing where to start with preparations. What you’ll learn in this article: the preparation schedule and cost guide for exhibiting; preparation by period...