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The big picture of the challenges apple farming now faces. Apples are a familiar sight at the table, but their cultivation sites face a stack of overlapping structural problems: a shrinking farming workforce, changing growing conditions, labor concentrated in the harvest season, and ever-rising costs. It's not any one cause alone, but several...

There are more chances to hear the term fair trade. You spot products with a certification mark at supermarkets and cafés, or see it featured in companies' sustainability reports—it is steadily spreading in Japan too. This article covers the basic definition of fair trade...

What you'll learn in this article: the four drying methods for dried vegetables and their characteristics, a comparison of nutrition, cost, texture, and use, recommended drying methods by purpose, and points to check when buying. With dried vegetables, the "drying method" makes a big difference in quality. When you look for "dried vegetables" at the supermarket or online, similar-looking ...

「スーパーマーケット・トレードショー（SMTS）」は、全国のスーパーマーケットをはじめ、小売・卸・商社・中食・外食のバイヤーが集まる、食品流通業界向けの商談型展示会です。棚に並べる商品の仕入れ先を探すバイヤーと、自社商品を売り込みたいメーカ...

「CAFERES JAPAN（カフェレスジャパン）」は、カフェ・喫茶・ベーカリー・スイーツ店・テイクアウト業態など、飲食店の開業と運営に必要な商材・機器・サービスが顔をそろえる専門展です。コーヒーやお茶といった飲料、製菓・製パンの原料、包装容器やデリ...

Winter melon is a summer vegetable known for its mild yet gentle sweetness and juiciness. Our dried winter melon uses Kyoto-grown raw material carefully dried at low temperature, so it reproduces a natural texture and flavor even when rehydrated in stews and soups. Because it lets you handle high-moisture winter melon in a stable form, it is ideal for commercial kitchens and retort ...

Coconut Flower Sugar (Vietnam-Grown) | Commercial Raw Material Wholesale. A natural sweetener using 100% organic coconut nectar grown in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Containing abundant minerals, amino acids, and polyphenols, it can be used in a wide range of food development as an alternative to refined sugar or honey...

Product Overview of Dried Banana (Okinawa-Grown Island Banana + Overseas-Grown) A dried banana made by using, as appropriate, the rare "island banana" grown by partner farmers in Okinawa and stably supplied overseas-grown bananas. Island banana is small but prized for its rich sweetness and acidity, with an appealing special-feeling flavor. On...

Dried broccoli product overview. This dried broccoli uses broccoli grown in Kyoto Prefecture, bringing out its vivid green color and umami. Slow low-temperature drying concentrates the bright green color and flavor while keeping a firm texture. Even after rehydration, its vivid color and bite ...

The gentle ring of "Kyoto vegetables" is everyday life for Kyoto people, and for those living outside Kyoto it's an object of longing, evoking a certain nostalgia. Tied to seasonal events and dishes, they have nurtured a distinctive food culture. Today, with advances in agricultural technology, more can be enjoyed year-round...

On March 31, 2026, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries published the April growth conditions and price outlook for vegetables destined for the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Wholesale Market. With rainfall and rising temperatures since late February, the growth of many leafy vegetables has recovered, and cabbage and lettuce are expected to see supply slightly above average and prices fall year-on-year. On the other hand, last summer's...

According to the vegetable outlook in the Japan Agricultural News (dated March 29, 2026), the onion market at the Keihin Market is expected to turn to a downward trend. High prices have continued for a long time, but as shipment volumes of Saga Prefecture-grown onions increase, supply and demand ease, shifting toward a phase where the price level settles. Food processi...

Cabbage Stays High at 149 yen/kg in Late March—Amid Continued Price Instability of Spring Vegetables, Why the "Stability" of Dried Vegetables Draws Attention

Soaring resource prices, pressure for environmental consideration, the current toward sustainable management. What companies are now called on to have is a “use-it-all” mindset. Drawing attention is the use of “unused resources” overlooked until now—byproducts of discarded crops, ingredients dormant in regions, and what comes out during processing...

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...

Demand for mugwort is rising markedly. Why is this Japanese herb, long beloved in Japan, now drawing so much attention? Behind it lie rising health consciousness, a reappraisal of Japanese herbs, and the discovery of new uses in the beauty and food industries. Especially since 2024...

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...

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...

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...

ネット通販やお土産屋さんでよく目にする、チョコレートがかかったいちごのお菓子。インバウンド需要もあって人気の商品ですが、あの軽くてサクッとしたいちごはフリーズドライで作られています。 フリーズドライは、非常食やアウトドアだけでなく、インス...

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...

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...

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...

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...

「ファベックス関西」は、惣菜・デリカ・弁当・中食・外食に特化した西日本最大級の業務用食品専門展です。インテックス大阪で開かれ、関西・近畿圏の食品メーカー、業務用卸、スーパーやコンビニの惣菜バイヤー、外食チェーンの商品担当が集まります。東...

「ヘルスフードエキスポ（HFE JAPAN）」は、健康食品・サプリメント・機能性素材を専門に扱う商談型の展示会です。国際食品素材／添加物展「ifia JAPAN」と同じ会場・会期で開かれ、原料メーカーからOEM受託企業、パッケージや検査の関連事業者までが集ま...

「国際 食品物流EXPO（Food LogiX）」は、食品の輸出入・国内配送・保管・包装・輸出入コンサルティングまで、食品を「運ぶ・預かる・届ける」工程を担う事業者が集まる専門展示会です。国際 食品・飲料商談Week「JFEX」の一角として東京ビッグサイトで開...

「FOOD展」は、給食・大量調理から食品工場の改善、食品物流、食品安全、惣菜・中食までを一度に扱う、食品事業者向けの複合展示会です。東京ビッグサイトで、給食・中食・惣菜メーカーや食品工場、物流・卸の担当者が、現場の課題を解決する設備・資材・...

「JFEX 冬（国際 食品・飲料商談Week）」は、加工食品・ワイン/酒・プレミアム食品・生鮮食品といった専門展に、日本産食品の輸出商談展までが東京ビッグサイトに集まる、晩秋の食品商談週間です。国内バイヤーと海外バイヤーが同じ会場に集うため、仕入れ...

Product overview of dried beets. Kyoto-grown beets, drawing attention as a superfood, are cut into two types—julienne and diced—and slowly dried at low temperature. Even after rehydration, a chunky texture and the natural sweetness unique to beets stand out. Drying softens the earthy smell characteristic of beets, and peeling…

"Kujo negi" is a green negi that represents Kyoto, certified as a Kyoto heirloom vegetable with about 1,300 years of history. It's an ingredient essential to Kyoto cuisine—Kyo-udon, Kyoto hot pot, and as a garnish—prized for the sliminess of its leaf flesh, the sweetness that increases in winter, and its rich aroma. This article covers Kujo negi's position as a Kyoto vegetable...

Agriture recently prototyped "sweet basil powder" using domestically grown sweet basil. Sweet basil is a herb with a refreshing aroma and faint sweetness, known as a versatile ingredient that elevates the flavor of a whole dish. The freshness distinctive of the fresh leaf...

Agriture recently prototyped "purple chili powder" using domestically grown purple chili. Purple chili is a variety rich in anthocyanin, prized for its beautiful purple color and fruity aroma. It has a deep richness within its heat, and gives color and flavor to dishes, sweets, drinks, and more...

Nameko is a mushroom prized for its distinctive sliminess and rich umami, widely enjoyed in miso soup, dressed dishes, and more. Drying concentrates the umami components and raises shelf life, so it can be used in a form suited to commercial and processing uses. Because nameko's texture and flavor remain firmly even after rehydration...

Agriture recently prototyped "lotus root powder" using domestically grown lotus root. Lotus root is widely cultivated throughout Japan, a vegetable prized for its crisp texture and gentle sweetness. It's used in a variety of dishes—simmered, stir-fried, deep-fried—and is rich in dietary fiber and vitamin...

Our brands OYAOYA, Letters from a Pear, and Agriture have been listed on "Urelio," a platform that supports international trade in food ingredients and processed products. Under the philosophy of "bringing more of Japan's deliciousness to the world through the power of IT and storytelling," Urelio connects domestic food...

Agriture has newly begun handling coconut ingredients based on fair trade principles. By connecting directly with farmers in producing regions and conducting fair transactions, it is an initiative that supports sustainable agriculture and livelihoods in those communities. Coconut is widely produced mainly across Asia...

Agriture recently prototyped "yuzu powder" using yuzu harvested in Kyoto, a famous yuzu-producing area located in Ukyo Ward, Kyoto City. Kyoto is known as a historic yuzu-producing area continuing since the Heian period, and its land—blessed with a climate of temperature swings and clear water—produces aromatic, high...

You want to make a food under your own brand. More and more companies are thinking this way. Entrants from other industries—retail, restaurants, startups—are becoming more active, and the food OEM market continues to expand. On the other hand, cases such as "the product didn't turn out as expected" or "costs exceeded expectations"...

Black tea OEM is a contract service for planning and manufacturing original black tea products under your own brand. You outsource everything—selecting tea leaves, blend design, flavoring, and packaging—to a specialist black tea manufacturer, allowing you to roll out black tea products bearing your own name from small lots. D2C, cafés, hotels, food...

As diets diversify today, there is demand not just for "getting nutrition" but for higher-value-added foods. Vegetables rich in functional components are drawing particular attention. Among them, the "Phytorich series" developed by Takii Seed offers a rich range of functional components you "choose by color."...