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りんご農業がいま直面している課題の全体像 食卓でおなじみのりんごですが、その栽培現場では構造的な問題がいくつも重なり合っています。担い手の減少、栽培環境の変化、収穫期に集中する人手、上がり続けるコスト。どれか一つだけが原因ではなく、複数の...

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...

この記事でわかること 乾燥野菜の4つの乾燥方法とそれぞれの特徴 栄養・コスト・食感・用途の比較 目的別のおすすめ乾燥方法 購入時のチェックポイント 乾燥野菜は「乾燥方法」で品質が大きく変わる スーパーやネットで「乾燥野菜」を探すと、同じような見...

The Supermarket Trade Show 2026 is one of Japan’s foremost business-matching trade shows for the food distribution industry, including supermarkets. Food manufacturers, trading companies, wholesalers, ready-made meal businesses, and restaurant chains attend in large numbers, making it a platform directly tied to distribution and sales-channel expansion, in-store reform, and product development...

Cafe Show Japan is a specialized trade show covering raw materials, cooking equipment, store supplies, and service solutions related to cafés, bakeries, and sweets. Café owners, bakery owners, sweets manufacturers, ingredient and equipment makers, store design and service operators, and others...

冬瓜は淡白ながらもやさしい甘みとみずみずしさが特徴の夏野菜です。乾燥冬瓜は京都産の原料を低温で丁寧に乾燥し、煮込み料理やスープで戻した際にも自然な食感と風味が再現されます。水分が多い冬瓜を安定した形で扱えるため、業務用の調理現場やレトル...

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...

乾燥ブロッコリーの製品概要 京都府産のブロッコリーを使用し、その鮮やかな緑色と旨味を引き出した乾燥ブロッコリーです。低温でじっくり乾燥させることで、鮮やかな緑色と風味が凝縮され、食感もしっかりと保たれています。水戻し後も鮮やかな色味と歯ご...

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...

"Chocolate-coated strawberry sweets," often spotted while browsing online shops and souvenir stores. It's a popular product, including among inbound tourists, and freeze-drying technology is used in it. As a processing technology that achieves both shelf life and ease, it draws attention for both home and commercial use...

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...

野菜ペーストとは、新鮮な野菜を加熱・すり潰してペースト状（なめらかな半固形）に加工した食品素材です。水分を多く含むため口当たりがまろやかで、ソース・ベビーフード・スイーツ・ドレッシングなどに使われます。一方で、野菜パウダー・乾燥野菜・ピ...

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...

FABEX Kansai is the largest specialized trade show in the Kansai area for commercial foods, ingredients, and related equipment, held from November 26 (Wed) to 28 (Fri), 2025 at INTEX Osaka. It brings together food and ingredient exhibitors such as delicatessen, boxed meals, ready-made meals, restaurants, processed ingredients, seasonings and spices, fats and oils, and beverages...

The “Health Food Expo” is a food development and ingredients exhibition themed on “health,” covering health and functional foods, ingredients and additives, and organic and natural foods. Target exhibit items include health foods, supplements, vitamins and minerals, amino acids, herbs, and beauty/diet foods...

The International Food Logistics EXPO is a specialized trade show that brings together technology and services supporting the front lines of logistics and distribution in the food and beverage industry. It covers a wide range of fields themed on the efficiency and optimization of the entire food supply chain—transport, storage, packaging, freezing and refrigeration, inspection, traceability, and logistics DX...

The FOOD Exhibition 2026 is one of Japan’s largest business trade shows for companies in the food and beverage industry. Food manufacturers, processors, beverage wholesalers and sellers, raw material and ingredient suppliers, and packaging and equipment service providers gather from across the country to present and do business around the latest trends, new products, and technical solutions...

JFEX Winter (7th International Food & Beverage Business Week) is an international business-matching trade show specialized in the food and beverage fields. It is held at Makuhari Messe from December 3 (Wed) to 5 (Fri), 2025. It comprises five specialized areas covering processed foods, wine and spirits, premium foods, fresh foods, and inbound-oriented foods...

乾燥ビーツの製品概要 スーパーフードとして注目される京都産のビーツを細切り・角切りの2タイプにカットし、低温でじっくり乾燥。水戻し後もごろっとした食感とビーツならではの自然な甘さが際立ちます。乾燥することでビーツ特有の土臭さは和らぎ、皮む...

"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...

このたび、弊社ブランド OYAOYA・梨からの手紙・Agriture の商品が、食品原料や加工品の国際取引を支援するプラットフォーム「Urelio」に掲載されました。 Urelioは「ITとストーリーの力で、日本のおいしい！をもっと世界に」という理念のもと、国内の食品...

このたびAgritureは、フェアトレードの考え方に基づくココナッツ原料の取り扱いを新たにスタートしました。生産地の農家と直接つながり、適正な取引を行うことで、地域の持続可能な農業と生活を支える取り組みです。 ココナッツは、アジアを中心に広く生産...

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...

食が多様化している現代では、ただ「栄養を摂る」だけではなく、より付加価値の高い食品が求められています。特に注目されているのが、機能性成分を豊富に含む野菜。中でもタキイ種苗が展開する「ファイトリッチシリーズ」は、“色で選ぶ”機能性成分を豊富...