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Can the lettuce from our field be dried and turned into a product? Yes, we can dry it. But the first thing to know is that leafy vegetables become surprisingly light once dried: 10 kg fresh can end up as around 500 g finished. In this article, based on what we actually offer as OEM and contract processing...

Shiso powder, made by drying and grinding shiso (ooba, red shiso), is a commercial ingredient that lets you add aroma and color without moisture. It is used widely for flavoring processed foods—furikake, ochazuke mix, Japanese-style snacks, and dough for baking and noodle-making. This article covers shiso powder...

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...

That fragrant powder sprinkled over grilled eel is sansho powder (powdered sansho). Because it lets you easily add a refreshing aroma and a lingering tongue tingle without adding moisture, inquiries such as "I want to use domestic sansho powder in small lots" and "I'm looking for a powder with a pronounced aroma" are increasing...

Edible flowers that gorgeously decorate dishes and sweets. Their use in café desserts, gifts, drinks, and tea is expanding, and consultations about incorporating them into one's own products are increasing. Meanwhile, questions arise, such as "In what form should we source them?" "How do they differ from ornamental flowers?" "Can we make products at small lots?"...

Chili powder, made by drying and grinding chili peppers, is a handy ingredient that lets you add heat, color, and aroma without moisture. Its uses are wide—flavoring ichimi, kimchi, soup, and snacks—and inquiries such as "I want to use domestic chili powder in small lots" and "I'm looking for a powder with stable heat and color" are...

Wanting to make your own brand product using mushrooms, or to source dried mushrooms for restaurant use in bulk. What you can use in such cases is commercial mushroom wholesale and OEM (contract manufacturing). That said, without knowing "what forms they can be processed into" or "whether small lots are accepted," the first step...

Wanting to make your own brand of mixed spice, or to make an original seasoning matched to a dish into a product. What you can use in such cases is spice OEM (contract manufacturing). That said, without knowing "what blends can be made" or "whether small lots are accepted," many staff hesitate at the first step...

Wanting to make your own brand of shichimi togarashi, or to make a local shichimi that leverages regional ingredients into a product. What you can use in such cases is shichimi OEM (contract manufacturing). That said, without knowing "what blends can be made" or "whether small lots are accepted," not a few staff hesitate at the first step...

Wanting to make an original seasoning to use on snacks, deli sides, popcorn, and the like. What you can use in such cases is seasoning OEM (contract manufacturing). That said, without knowing "what tastes can be made" or "whether small lots are accepted," not a few staff hesitate at the first step...

Wanting to have your own brand of dashi, or to make an original dashi pack to use in a restaurant. What you can use in such cases is dashi OEM (contract manufacturing). That said, without knowing "what dashi can be made" or "how much the minimum lot and cost are," not a few staff...

Wanting to make your own brand of furikake. Wanting to try an original product that leverages regional vegetables at small lots. What you can use in such cases is furikake OEM (contract manufacturing). That said, without knowing "where to request it" or "how much the minimum lot and cost are," you stop at the first step...

When choosing a commercial dried fruit supplier, judging by price alone often leads to regret over "sugar content, additive-free status, lot size, and lead time." Because the optimal drying method for dried fruit changes greatly with the sugar content (Brix value) of the fresh fruit used as raw material, whether the supplier understands the fruit's sugar content...

Commercial fruit powder is a commercial raw material made by powdering fruit, used across a wide range—confectionery, beverages, smoothies, dairy products, snacks, and health foods. Unlike fresh fruit, it can be stored at room temperature, and because it can be added little by little with color, aroma, and nutrition concentrated, it's used from the prototyping stage of product development through mass production...

View the press release here: https://www.value-press.com/pressrelease/372711/ ■ Background of the initiative In the food industry, alongside rising raw material costs and labor shortages, the digital shift in consumer purchasing behavior is advancing rapidly, and whether B2B or B2C, "how to get found on the web" is...

*As of September 2026, the minimum lot for small-bag filling is 500 bags. This has changed from the terms at the time of this release. For the latest terms, see the Small-Bag Filling OEM Service page. Press release: https://www.value-press.com/pressrelease/372537/ Background: Small-lot fill...

Original Blends of Dried Vegetables. Toward realizing a sustainable society by 2030, companies are carrying out SDGs efforts. In recent years, environmentally conscious products have joined the options for distribution novelties at recruiting events and trade shows. Such environmentally conscious...

"We want to make our own brand of soup," "We want to try it from a small quantity"—such voices are rapidly increasing in the food industry. In fact, soup OEM manufacturing is now an era where you can start even from small lots. The era when mass production was essential is over, and even individual shops and small operators can... an original...

The filling and packaging of vegetable powder is a process that greatly influences the final product's quality and cost. Because powder carries risks of static electricity, moisture absorption, clumping, measurement accuracy, and foreign-matter contamination, it requires "filling-specialist know-how" separate from raw material processing. When making a differentiated product for commercial use, the filling maker's equipment and...

An original tea is a unique tea designed to match your brand concept, rather than an off-the-shelf tea leaf. By combining five elements—selecting the base tea leaf, blending ingredients, blend ratios, packaging, and story—you pack a "brand story" into a single cup. Rather than simply...

Tea OEM price ranges are determined by five factors: product type, lot, ingredient grade, packaging, and certification requirements. Tea bags run from tens to hundreds of yen per unit, and for leaf tea the unit price moves greatly depending on tea-leaf grade, while vegetable tea and foods with function claims add further prototyping and testing costs...

You want to launch your own original tea brand. For you who harbor this wish, there is the option of a tea OEM. OEM is short for "Original Equipment Manufacturer," a system for outsourcing the manufacture of your own brand's products to another manufacturer. In the tea industry, from raw material procurement...

Tea gift OEM is an approach that lets you plan and sell original tea gift products without owning your own manufacturing equipment. You can design products to match the gift occasion and price range—chugen, seibo, celebratory return gifts, corporate novelties—across a wide range from green tea, black tea, and tea bags to premium blends and vegetable tea...

Coffee OEM is a system in which you outsource the production of original coffee under your own brand to a specialist manufacturer. Cafes and restaurants turn their house flavor into retail products, companies prepare original drip bags as novelties or commemorative gifts, and tourist facilities create local souven...

How to choose a coffee OEM vendor is the single most important decision that influences a brand's taste, cost, and speed. Vendors come in five types—self-roasting specialists, major subcontractors, drip-bag specialists, roaster-operated shops, and regional roasteries—and each has different areas of strength, minimum lots, and prototyping flexibility. ...

Small-lot coffee OEM ordering is a way to bring a unique-brand coffee to market with reduced risk. For each of the three formats—beans, drip bags, and RTD (PET bottle / can)—the minimum lot, unit price, and equipment differ. With a small-lot-support maker, prototyping and mass production from 50–500 units...

Wanting to launch your own brand of food or health food. But the investment in manufacturing equipment is too heavy a burden. For small and medium-sized companies and startups with such worries, OEM filling is a powerful option. But have you ever been surprised looking at the initial-cost quote? In fact, with ingenuity...

Stick-filling OEM is a filling format suited to providing single-use, small-capacity products (supplements, soup base, smoothie, protein, coffee, etc.) in small individual packs. Pre-measured and easy to open, with high portability, it is used for office stocking, subscription boxes, and promotional novelties...

Selecting packaging materials is a process that simultaneously influences the shelf life of the contents, the cost, and brand value. Unless you choose the optimal material to match the contents' characteristics (powder, liquid, granular, paste), the filling method, the distribution route, and the sales channel, unexpected quality degradation, unit-cost overruns, and machine-compatibility problems occur...

For a filling OEM quote request, whether you can convey the necessary information without excess or deficiency greatly changes the accuracy and speed of the quote you get back. If you organize the raw material, capacity, form, lot, delivery time, and quality requirements, plus filling conditions by powder/liquid/paste and the requirements for changeover cleaning, then multiple makers...

Stand-pouch filling is a packaging format often adopted for small-lot D2C, gifts, and novelties of food. With a self-standing shape that is easy to display, resealable with a zipper, and a wide range of choices from transparent to aluminum to custom design, it suits food operators wanting to launch a branded product from small quantities...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 is contract manufacturing in which several dried vegetables are blended to fit a product concept and sold under your own brand. It is used for products rehydrated with hot or cold water, such as miso soup fillings, soups, cup noodle toppings, mixed rice and emergency food. This article...

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...

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 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...

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...

Dried fruit OEM means outsourcing everything from drying the fruit to bagging it, then selling the product under your own brand. You can have a product without owning equipment, but costs are determined very differently from dried vegetable or confectionery OEM. The real difference is yield. Fruit is more than 80% water...

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...

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..."

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...