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When it comes to yakuzen, many people may picture yakuzen tea, but there are many foods beyond tea that can draw on yakuzen thinking—dashi, soup, furikake, powder, and more. For staff at companies thinking "I want to develop a yakuzen product, but where do I start?", we cover, beyond tea...

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...

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...

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...