Private equity group Sun Capital Partners has acquired the assets of KK Tarami, a leading Japanese producer of fruit-flavoured gelatine cups. Tarami produces fruit jelly in eight and five ounce cups ...

Japanese company MannanLife sells a line of fruit-flavored konnyaku jelly called Konnyaku Batake in Japan. Konnyaku, also known as konjac or devil’s tongue in English, is a popular plant-based ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Kanten is more popularly known outside Japan as agar agar. It's a seaweed-based gelling agent but its properties are very different to ...

After living in Japan for months as an exchange student, it’s equal parts familiar and different. And this extends to snacks.

As the recent NHK TV drama (completed the end of September 2023) Ranman had it, in 1896 botanist Makino Tomotarō was trekking through the mountains of Taiwan collecting plant specimens as part of a ...

Some children return to school from summer break visibly skinnier’….this quite often is not from a poor diet in the summer. My 10yo lost a lot of weight last summer, he was eating 4 large meals a day ...