tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33229702479359401572024-03-13T16:22:06.611+09:00Food Science Japan(food, science and japan)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1928125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3322970247935940157.post-57408401884830970042023-05-01T08:40:00.003+09:002023-05-01T08:40:45.611+09:00Meiji and Ajinomoto introduce new methane reduction schemeVery happy to share a new and unique methane reduction scheme from Meiji and Ajinomoto designed to benefit dairy farmers in several ways. Details can be found in the links below, but dairy farmers will be provided with an enteric methane reducing feed from Ajinomoto (AjiPro-L) and will then be paid for GHG reductions as part of the J-Credit program. Meiji is very happy to work with farmers in order to reach our Net Zero by 2050 goal.<div><div>English (PDF) <a href="https://www.meiji.com/global/news/2023/pdf/230329_01.pdf">https://www.meiji.com/global/news/2023/pdf/230329_01.pdf</a></div><div>Japanese <a href="https://www.meiji.co.jp/corporate/pressrelease/2023/0327_02/">https://www.meiji.co.jp/corporate/pressrelease/2023/0327_02/</a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5151Z_qtolnJUYIuarPfxfacd-HpprgnXGIG1pyT22UTV2fM_oHOd2_l5EkFHR2pfdAyoCveY40HN2j3_mPRbhF9fxGOSPYSqsCJ0HkrMb8bLC19gTDFn2DtsAx7G-nG0NM0iQRMK30ys9Jk3lt8a2UtonCbq4zdJChcvTAmA2jyTRl62I9kYrMQQkw/s2753/Screen%20Shot%2004-30-23%20at%2005.40%20PM.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1232" data-original-width="2753" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5151Z_qtolnJUYIuarPfxfacd-HpprgnXGIG1pyT22UTV2fM_oHOd2_l5EkFHR2pfdAyoCveY40HN2j3_mPRbhF9fxGOSPYSqsCJ0HkrMb8bLC19gTDFn2DtsAx7G-nG0NM0iQRMK30ys9Jk3lt8a2UtonCbq4zdJChcvTAmA2jyTRl62I9kYrMQQkw/w640-h286/Screen%20Shot%2004-30-23%20at%2005.40%20PM.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It is not uncommon to come upon small plots cultivating tea when driving (or riding a bike, in my case) through rural communities in Japan.</b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Che branding and the iconic photo work even in Japan.</span></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Haagen-Dazs will introduce a new decadent offering Feb 6th, the Triple Chocolat, which actually looks like a quadruple chocolate to me (two white chocolates, a bitter chocolate, and milk chocolate). When you open the cup there is a layer of white chocolate ice cream with chunks of white chocolate chips. When you scoop down, you make your way through a layer of bitter chocolate sauce on your way to a milk chocolate ice cream with a rich cacao flavor.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Words: カカオ ハーゲンダッツ トリプルショコラ Haagen-Dazs Triple Chocolat</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GABA, or gamma-amino butyric acid, is a component of chocolate that has been shown to have a stress reducing effect. This Glico product by the same name contains 280 mg of GABA per 100 g of product, and comes in milk chocolate and bitter chocolate varieties.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Possibly the more interesting point is that this product employs the relatively new food claim system in which a company takes responsibility for the claim instead of having it approved by the government. This was introduced to somewhat mimic the claim system in the US.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Therefore this product clearly claims psychological stress reduction, but then in small print points out that this claim has not been verified by the Japanese government.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key words: Glico, GABA, chocolate, グリコ チョコレート ギャバ</span></b><br />
<a href="http://cp.glico.jp/gaba/index.html"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://cp.glico.jp/gaba/index.html</span></b></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nestle is selling a special green tea variety of KitKat only in Kyushu and Okinawa. Kumamon is the brand character created by Kumamoto Prefecture and free for use in any product that contains ingredients from Kumamoto. Since the earthquake in Kumamoto last year, it has become a symbol for support for people in that area.</span></b><br />
<a href="https://nestle.jp/"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://nestle.jp</span></b></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Words: Nestle, KitKat, Kumamoto Prefecture ネスレ キットカット くまもん くまもと茶 熊本県</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Styled after their chicken crisps, called "Colonel Crispies", KFC has introduced crispy shrimp sticks, called "Ebi Paripari Fry", which use natural (not farmed) shrimp.</span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.kfc.co.jp/"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.kfc.co.jp</span></b></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Words: KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken, shrimp, えびパリパリフライ ケンタッキーフライドチキン</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pokka Sapporo is offering a lavender tea which uses lavender from the Furano area of Hokkaido. They stress that a special low temperature extraction process of the lavender-tea mixture avoids the bitter and astringent tastes that can otherwise accompany the process.</span></b><br />
<a href="http://www.pokkasapporo-fb.jp/"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.pokkasapporo-fb.jp</span></b></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Words: Pokka Sapporo, Furano, Hokkaido, lavender, tea, ラベンダー, 茶, 富良野, 北海道</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wendy's has introduced new premium burgers at premium prices: the brioche cheese and tomato burger (680 yen), and the brioche bistro beef stew burger (860 yen). Little explanation and no press release accompanies the introduction, but brioche refers to the bread and in one like of copy the burgers are said to have a buttery aroma for this winter special.</span></b><br />
<a href="http://wendys.co.jp/"><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://wendys.co.jp/</span></b></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key Words: Wendy's, brioche, burger, ブリオッシュ, ウェンディーズ</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>This is a photo of sake (or nihonshu) casks offered by the sake producers in Aichi Prefecture (only Aichi Prefecture) to Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya, one of the major shrines in Japan.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>This white chocolate KitKat version promises aroma of fine sake and clean aftertaste. This is a limited product, but is available throughout Japan.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Key Words: KitKat, Nestle, Sake, キットカット ネスレ 日本酒 ワイトチョコレート</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> This post took me in a different direction than originally intended. I started out thinking this was simply a case of a major brewer pretending to be a micro-brewer. The real story here is more about the interesting history of Kirin Beer, something I had forgotten.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>On the grounds of its Yokohama Brewery, Kirin runs a microbrewery and restaurant called Spring Valley Brewery. Currently, there are seven varieties of beer on offer and the price per bottle averages 430 yen. These same beers are also available for sale on the internet. Getting this far, it looked to me that it was simply a case of one of the big guys muscling in on mom and pop microbrewery territory.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>It is not quite that simple though. Spring Valley Brewery is actually the name of what Kirin calls the first brewery in Japan that was a business success. In 1869, William Copeland, a Norwegian-American brewer, made the shift from dairy to beer brewing and established Spring Valley Brewery in Yokohama. Copeland was at the forefront of employing what was then the new pasteurization technique. He also dug a 210 meter cave in the side of a hill in Yokohama in order to have a fixed temperature space for controlled beer maturation.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In 1885, with the help of famous Scottish trader Blake Thomas Glover, the business was sold to a group of Japanese investors which included the president of Mitsubishi. The new business, called The Japan Brewery, was founded and incorporated in Hong Kong. This was the forerunner of Kirin Brewery. Glover is buried in the Foreigner's Cemetery in Yokohama and his grave is maintained by Kirin.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>So Spring Valley Brewery is a throwback to Kirin's roots, and the Copeland variety is named for the founder. Interesting history.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Key Words: Spring Valley Brewery, Kirin Beer, William Copeland ウィリアム・コープランド キリンビール スプリングバレーブルワリー</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Kirin touts a propitiatory method to be the secret behind the taste of its Namacha Tea. The process centers around the use of ceramic balls to crush the tea leaves. Typically, tea leaves are mechanically cut, but Kirin uses creamic balls and a ceramic ball mill to more finely cut the leaves and therefore more efficiently release tea extract essential to genuine tea taste. The complete presess consists of three steps: crushing the leaves with ceramic ball instead of cutting, pressing the resulting mass as a whole to extract all the flavor, and low temperature extraction to avoid any loss or change of flavor due to temperature.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>The web page also makes a point of the completely green packaging, which is said to convey a more basic tea image.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Tea is an important product category in Japan, where even seemingly minor taste advanages can be very important</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Key words: Kirin, Namucha, Tea, キリン 生茶</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>This is a Hokkaido-only special edition of Black Thunder a popular chocolate snack. It is made with white chocolate in the company's Sapporo factory. The added copy reads "white thunder god" 白い雷神 (the thunder god is a Shinto-related god often seen in Japanese prints) and "Deliciousness straight down" おいしさ直滑降 (the word for straight down is most often used with skiing).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Black Thunder is the most well known brand from Tokyo based Yuraku Seika Confectionery company.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Key Words: Black Thunder, Yuraku Seika, ブラックサンダー ユーラク製菓</b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Pizza can be a different experience in Japan. In addition to what you might call typical pizza varieties in Western countries like pepperoni and triple cheese, you also encounter liberal use of corn and mayonnaise here. At a party last night, in what might be a first for me, kamaboko and shirasu pizza was served. Kamaboko is cured surimi, but is also referred to as fish paste or even fish hot dogs. Kamaboko is not just a way to process excess fish protein, it is actually considered a staple of almost any multi-serving Japanese meal. Kamaboko can be very expensive.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>What you see pictured here is a cheese pizza with distinct mayonnaise flavor topped with kamaboko slices and shirasu (I had to look up the English - small fry of fish or whitebait).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Probably not something you would find on a menu outside Japan, but it was actually quite good.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Key Words: Pizza, Kamaboko, Shirasu ピザ 蒲鉾 シラス 白子</b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>FritoLay, which goes through a Calbee owned company in Japan, has introduced dark black garlic pepper Doritos for Halloween. There is an image of a Dracula figure and in English it says "I can't eat garlic, but I want to eat this!" In Japanese, it says "トリックオアパリット!" which translates as "Trick or Crisp!"</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Key Words: Calbee, FritoLay, <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Doritos, Halloween, pepper ga<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rlic </span>カルビー <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ドリトス フリットレー <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ドリトス </span>ハロウィン ペッパー<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ガーリック</span></span></span></span> </b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>One product name that frequently makes non-Japanese laugh is Morinaga's Creap creamy powder, which is powdered cream mostly used for coffee. However, this is one of Japan's best known brands which is now celebrating 55 years on the market. It is also the only cream powder on the market actually made from milk and not plant based oils. Besides celebrating its 55th anniversary, Morinaga is introducing plastic containers to replace the long used glass bottles.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.creap.jp/">http://www.creap.jp/</a> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Key Words: Morinaga, Creap 森永 クリープ</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> Meiji has introduced Bulgaria Green Fruits Mix Drink Yogurt in the still relatively new screw top bottles.</b></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>MegMilk Snow Brand has introduced a new chilled cup coffee line called Baritaism, which is centered around Hiroshi Sawada 澤田洋史, who in 2008 became the first Asian to win the Free Pour Latte World Championship with the highest ever recorded score. Even though the name does not really make sense in English, the press release describes how trendy it is.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Chilled coffees sell at a premium and are always marketed as a luxury, so the imagery fits perfectly. However, at present, the brand is tied solely to this one latte artist. Odd to create a new brand which depends on one spokesperson. Maybe they will introduce other baristas in the future. Also, he won his notoriety as a latte artist, which has nothing to do with taste and cannot be reproduced in a chilled cup coffee where you sip the coffee through a straw and never actually see the coffee.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>So, I am left with more questions than answers, but marketing like this is aimed more at imagery and feeling than logic. If the product actually tastes good, everything else will be forgotten.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.meg-snow.com/barista/">http://www.meg-snow.com/barista/</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Key Words: MegMilk Snow Brand, Bristaism, Hiroshi Sawada 雪印メグミルク バリスタイズム 澤田洋史</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/science/organic-milk-shelf-life.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/27/science/organic-milk-shelf-life.html</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>In short (my summary),</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Q. Why does organic milk have a longer shelf life than regular milk?</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A. Demand for organic milk is less, therefore it has to travel farther to market. Therefore ultra high temperature (UHT) pasteurization (as opposed to HTST) is used for organic milk, which extends the shelf life. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">All factually correct. However, by itself the illustration accompanying the article is misleading because there is no inherent connection between organic milk and extended shelf life. Marketing realities demand different processing techniques.</strong></span><br />
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<strong style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And this answer does not even hit upon the irony of many people buying organic because they think it tastes better. The negative effect of UHT pasteurization on taste is very apparent to anyone who takes the time to compare the two. So buying organic might actually provide inferior taste, due to market necessities.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Aromax Coffee is Pokka Sapporo's premium line of canned coffees. The current 5 varieties can be seen in the image above: Premium, Black, Low Sugar, Latte, and Caramel <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">Macchiato. The obvious connection between the product line name, packaging and improved taste is the large screw top which allows more aroma out of the can and enhances the flavor perception of the product. That is pretty straight forward, aroma plays a huge role in flavor (as opposed to taste perception in the mouth).</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">However, looking at the webpage, Pokka Sapporo sites more reasons behind improved taste of this line and I have listed them below.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">1) coffee beans are specially selected and then roasted under optimal conditions (light, medium or deep roast depending on the bean). I take it this is opposed to cheaper methods where beans are mixed and roasted all together.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">2) more coffee beans (1.2 times more) are used to obtain a rich flavor</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">3) different coffee bean blends (the most suitable coffee bean blends) are used for each product.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">4) The patented Fresh Natural Aroma Method (</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">フレッシュナチュラルアロマ製法) is used for retaining the original taste of the coffee without resorting to the use of any added flavors at the end of the process. The flavors are retained by showering hot water on the roasting beans and capturing any escaping flavor compounds, condensing them back to a liquid and reinjecting these flavor compounds at the end of the process.</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class=""> </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">5) In order to avoid off flavors resulting from oxidation products, Pokka Sapporo has developed a process (</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">脱酸素製法) remove most of the oxygen prior to processing. (They indirectly reference similar methods used such as for Meiji Oishii Gyunyu "Delicious Milk").</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class=""> </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">6) Finally, the mention the large screw cap which they somewhat akwardly call the Wide Mouth Bottle Can "</span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">広口ボトル缶".</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">So, when you buy Pokka Sapporo Aromax Coffee, a lot of thought and technology has gone into bringing this product to market.</span></span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class=""><a href="http://www.pokkasapporo-fb.jp/aromax/index.html">http://www.pokkasapporo-fb.jp/aromax/index.html</a></span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">Key Words: Pokka Sapporo, Aromax Coffee, </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">Fresh Natural Aroma Method, deoxygenation, </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class=""><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">Wide Mouth Bottle Can</span></span> </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">ポッカサッポロ フレッシュナチュラルアロマ製法 </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">脱酸素製法 </span></span><span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="">広口ボトル缶</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>KFC Japan has a new Krushers variety, Peach and Peach which contains peach bits and juice from both white and yellow peaches. Vanilla biscuit is added for more crunchy texture. Like the other Krushers varieties, and packs calories (329 kcal), but nevertheless not as much as the Matcha Azuki variety (552 kcal).</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Key Words: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Krushers ケンタッキーフライドチキン</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://krushers.kfc.co.jp/">http://krushers.kfc.co.jp/</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> McDonald's Japan has made some news with this Halloween themed special. Add 60 yen to the price of any set and you get fries covered in chocolate and pumpkin sauce creating nice colorful imagery.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Sourcing: potatoes (US), cacao (Indonesia), pumpkin (New Zealand)</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> Key Words: McDonald's, Halloween, cacao, chocolate, pumpkin マックドナルド ハロウィン カカオ チョコ パンプキン</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/campaign/halloweenpotato/index.html">http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/campaign/halloweenpotato/index.html</a></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>Sapporo has a craft beer line called THAT'S HOP and now they have added a new beer called Sorachi Ace, named after a hop variety.</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The company, this product and the history of the hop have a related, interesting history.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1) Sapporo, with local farmers in the Sorachi 空知 area of Hokkaido, developed this hop variety in the 1984 and sold beer varieties using this hop, but these products were before their time (according to the company).</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2) US hop grower Darren Gamache of Virgil Gamache Farms in Washington State obtained Sorachi Ace from the USDA Hop Cultivar Collection, cultivated it and offered it for sale in 2006.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3) during the Hop Crisis of 2008 when hop prices soared due to supply and weather problems, many brewers in the US turned to this hop variety which has a special lemony auroma. Since then it has been a steady niche hop variety in the US and Europe.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4) now things have come full circle with Sapporo collaborating with Darren Gamache to bring the hop back to Japan for Sapporo THAT'S HOP Sorachi Ace beer.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From what I can see this beer if only available on Amazon and possibly in special Sapporo beer halls. Amazon is also the place where most of the information about this beer can be found - very little on the website.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Key Words: Sapporo Beer, Sorachi, Hokkaido, Sorachi Ace, Hop サッポロビール ソラチエース 空知支庁 北海道 ホップ</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01I13TX1E">https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01I13TX1E</a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b> Seen in a convenience store: Lipton varieties are already in a Halloween mood. Lipton goes through Morinaga in Japan.</b></span><br />
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