Blackmores directors have unanimously recommended shareholders vote in favour of the scheme
Japanese food and beverages (F&B) giant Kirin Holdings Company is acquiring Australian-listed healthcare company Blackmores at a cost of A$1.8 billion. Kirin and Blackmores have entered a Scheme Imple...
Japan is Starbucks third global market to introduce Oleato beverages
American multinational chain of coffeehouses Starbucks has announced the launch of an innovative line of coffee beverages called “Oleato” an innovative alchemy of Starbucks finest arabica coffee infused with Partanna extr...
Shimadzu and NARO have been collaborating on joint research into functional ingredients in food products since 2019
Shimadzu Corporation and the National Agriculture and Food Research Organisation (NARO), in Japan, had opened the NARO Shimadzu Testing Laboratory in March 2022 in the Shimadzu Hea...
Researchers show that exopolysaccharide, a bacteria-derived prebiotic has many health-related benefits
In a study recently published in the journal Gut Microbes, researchers from Kyoto University, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, and Noster Inc. in Japan, report the mechanisms...
Contribute to solving environmental and food problems, improving people's health, and proposing future foods
The Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Shimadzu Corporation, Itoham Yonekyu Holdings Inc., Toppan Inc., and SIGMAXYZ Inc. have established “the future creation consortium...
Sea Vegetable has succeeded in crossing seaweed and fermentation to create seaweed kombucha
Sea Vegetable Company, a startup culturing seaweed in Aki, Kochi Prefecture, Japan, has announced the launch of Re-seaweed brand and will release its product "Aonori Shoyu" (seaweed sauce) on March 20 ...
Continues to develop new products and grow business both in Japan and around the world, focusing on Southeast Asia
NEXT MEATS, a Japanese subsidiary of NEXT MEATS Holdings, Inc.- a Tokyo based food-tech venture company which is the inventor of the newest Non-GMO soybean protein based alter...
In 2023, Next Meats Co., Ltd. and group company Dr. Foods Co., Ltd. Launched Vegan Foie Gras, Vegan Caviar, and shelf stable Next Meats products to the plant-based markets in North America.
NEXT MEATS Co., Ltd. a Japanese subsidiary of NEXT MEATS Holdings, Inc. is Tokyo based food...
Next Meats is a food-tech venture company based in Tokyo that specialises in the R&D of alternative meat products, with a strong focus on sustainability.
The significance of this collaboration lies in the fact that their combined expertise will propel the speedy development of Next...
Kerry, a world leader in taste and nutrition, has announced a new commercial agreement with Japan-based Kameda Seika to market and distribute the company’s rice-derived postbiotic exclusively in Americas and Europe across a range of applications.
Kameda’s postbiotic Lactobacillus K-1 (Lactob...
Established the world's first method for producing cultured meat using inter-organ interactions -Culturing method forchicken / duck liver-derived cells using serum-free basal medium
Integriculture Co., Ltd. has succeeded for the first time in the world in culturing chicken and duck liver-derived...
2foods Plant-Based Omurice uses Ever Egg, a plant-based egg product developed by TWO and Kagome
A plant-based food brand 2foods by TWO Inc. has joined forces with Kagome, a Japanese food manufacturing giant known for its tomato ketchup and vegetable juices, to launch their first collaborative pr...
The exhibition will be held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture for four days from March 8, 2022, and it will feature food trends such as a broad range of value-added "frozen foods" and "substitute foods" as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as lately fashionable "food-tech...
Green tea catechin EGCg has inactivating effects against viruses. However, it has a strong antioxidant effect and highly susceptible to oxidative deterioration and lack storage stability.HPG Co., Ltd. (Chuo-ku, Tokyo) has successfully developed a water-soluble formulation technology of highly c...
Japan has consistently been one of WFP’s top donorsThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a total of $66 million in funding from the Government of Japan to provide emergency food assistance and livelihood support to vulnerable people in 26 countries across Asia, the Middle East...
Morinaga Milk confirmed that lactoferrin activates plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) that play important roles in the initiation of viral immune response.Morinaga Milk confirmed that lactoferrin activates plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs) that play important roles in the initiation of viral immu...
A technique that may revolutionise future production of meatScientists have for the first time obtained stem cells from livestock that grow under chemically defined conditions, paving the way for manufacturing cell cultured meat and breeding enhanced livestock.
Researchers from Exeter Tokyo and Mei...
Board of Directors of the Company resolved, at its meeting to select “Prime Market” and submit its application to the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Notice Regarding Application for Selection of “Prime Market” as the new market segment Morinaga Mil...
