Food Science Japan

Here is a ramune flavored children's toothpaste from Apagard. I think this is a good example of how popular the ramune taste is with Jap...

Anyone who has lived in Japan, has seen ramune drinks - mostly likely at a local festival. There is a nice Wikipedia entry on ramune here . ...

Here is a damning article from the Guardian , which says that according to a still secret World Bank report, 75% of food price rises are due...

Heinz sells squid ink pasta sauce in Japan. I am not sure how well the product is doing, but squid ink is a standard spaghetti sauce in Japa...

There is an interesting article in the recent issue of the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology titled "Food-Miles and the ...

There is a very interesting series on NPR, which is also being podcast , called "The DNA Files". The whole series is interesting, ...

Anyone with kids in Japan knows about Anpanman, the young children's cartoon series where all the characters are different food items. ...

Japan Pharmacology and Therapeutics (薬理と治療) is an interesting scientific publication to keep an eye on, because data from scientific trials ...

Rakuten announced that it is going to start next day deliveries of perishables. In the future it plans to move to same day deliveries. Raku...

There is a news item that Taisho Pharmaceutical is going to start selling a nonprescription anti-smoking patch . In the past smoking patches...