Diet

Water shield




High-quality food

Do you know Water shield?It is called Junsai in Japan.Have you eaten it?I have eaten it.I ate it for the first time in a Japanese food restaurant.Because the Japanese food restaurant was high-quality, I thought it to be high-quality food.However, it is an inexpensive food.
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refer to Food Producer Hayashi blog

Diet food

I enjoy a texture by Water shield.It is a bit thin taste.Some people looks like frogspawn and dislike it.Water shield is suitable for diet.Water shield is comprised of water in most.Therefore you do not gain weight even if you eat a lot it.
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refer to Love Akita blog

Water shield rescipe

Rince the Water shield for 2,3 times.Boil it.Cool with ice water.Eat it with Wasabi soy sauce.This recipe is the simplest and is the most yummy.Let’s eat water shield if you are on a diet.
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refer to Ando food blog

Dried persimmon




Grandmas wisdom

When I caught cold, grandmother fed me this.Then a cough stopped, and I recovered from a cold.The food which she fed me is Dried persimmon.It is sweet. And I can eat easily when there is not an appetite.
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High-spec persimmon

The persimmon is the fruit which is the oldest in Japan.The persimmon has abundant vitamin A and vitamin C.A persimmon a day keeps the doctor away.Vitamin A increases to double when dry the persimmon.The persimmon is a high-spec Japanese food.
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Dried persimmon recipe

  1. Prepare for an astringent persimmon.
  2. Rinse it and peeled
  3. Dip it into the vodka, and, please take it out immediately.
  4. Be dried.You can eat 10 days later.
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Miso




Japanese yogurt

The yogurt is a fermented milk food that mixed a lactic acid bacterium and yeast with milk and ferment.As for the yogurt, Bulgaria is famous.The miso is similar, too.is a Japanese food made by fermenting grains.The miso is food necessary for Japanese life.
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Effect of the miso

The effect of the anti-aging and a fair skin and whitening are included in miso.It is an old legend. “Do not marry the daughter of a tofu maker and the miso shop!”.Because daughters are very beauty , the husband cannot work worrying about a flirtation.There is such an effect in miso.
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long life

Japan is one of the long life countries.As for the factor, it is got various thoughts, but the Japanese dietary habits are one of the factors.”Ichiju-issai” is one of the menu compositions of meals in Japan.’Ichiju’ is miso soup.Most Japanese eat miso every day.The miso may be the long life secret.
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Corner store’s Oden diet




Convenience store

The corner store is called a convenience store in Japan and is called ‘convini’ for short.Seven eleven, LAWSON, Family mart, etc.If you walk the town in Japan, you can find it by all means.Various products are sold there.Freshly brewed coffee, Condom, Magazine, etc.Nearly everything is sold there.
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Oden

One of the popular items in corner stores is oden.It is the item which is popular among particularly women on a diet.Oden is a type of boiled and seasoned food in Japanese food.Oden is a Japanese winter dish consisting of several ingredients such as boiled eggs, daikon radish, konnyaku, and processed fish cakes stewed in a light, soy-flavoured dashi broth.
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Ingredients suitable for diet

Oden is often sold from food carts, and most Japanese corner stores have simmering oden pots in winter.Ingredients suitable for diet is Konbu, Daikon(Japanese radish), Boiled egg, Atsuage (thick fried tofu), Hanpen (a cake of ground fish combined with starch and steamed).Please go to the corner store if you come to Japan on a diet.
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Nukaduke




Diet Japanese food

Nukaduke is Japanese Pickles.It is vegetables that have been pickled in salted rice bran.The salted rice bran is called ‘Nukadoko’ in Japan.”Nukadoko” is like a paste of seasoner. It can’t eat itself but add vegetable great flavor.It’s very simple but it produce very pleasant taste!
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refer to Blog:Bridge over Troubled Water

Cucumber Nukoduke

An enzyme breaking down fat is included in Cucumber Nukoduke.This is effective for dieting just to eat it.Japanese comedian reduced the weight by this diet effect 4.5 kg.Such is the power of Nukaduke.Nukaduke is a representative of the Japanese food.
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Strong-smelling

But nukaduke has an unpleasant point.It is Strong-smelling.The representative of Strong-smelling by Japanese food is Natto, Kusaya, Nukaduke.When we make nukaduke, we must mix nukadoko by hand every morning.Strong-smelling is full every morning in the room.It is a smell of the morning in Japan.
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refer to Sadako’s Pickled Factory

Tanita Shokudo




Meter maker

Tanita is a measurement equipment manufacturer known for its weight and body fat scales.They understood their strengths enough.Therefore they is now selling boxed lunches and is running a restaurant.The restaurant which they run is full day after day and the food which they produce sells explosively.If you go to the supermarket for Japan, you can find a product of Tonita by all means.
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Toyota, Sony, Tanita

Tanita was founded in 1923.Tanita supports health of Japanese through an instrument.Because a Japanese becomes healthier, they repeat a study every day.They have used the results of research for food.As a result, Tonita grew up in a Japanese brand leader.It is Toyota, Sony, Tanita.Particularly, they buy the product in peace when the woman find a product of Tanita.Such is Tanita.You should look for a product of Tanita when you overeat yourself in Japan.When you finish eating it, you are changed to health.
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refer to Tanita Shokudo

Healthya coffee




Japanese love coffee

The Japanese coffee is strange.We drink cold coffee frequently in summer.It is the many kinds of the canned coffee that we can be proud of.Can coffee more than 50 kinds is always sold.It is not exaggeration even if I say that Japan loves coffee most in the world.The Japanese canned coffee is in particular Japanese food.
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Healthya and coffee

And the Japanese produced monsters.It is Healthya coffee.The Japanese drinks coffee and seems to become healthy, and it is diet drink.I drink five cups – six cups of coffee per day.I exchanged two cups of coffee with Healthya coffee.I lost 3 kilos in a month.I do not do the special thing.
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No healthya

I heard that Healtya is prohibited in Europe.When I drink Healthya green tea, I have loose bowels.However, I do not have loose bowels even if I drink Healtya coffee.Probably I think that there is the affinity to a body.Please drink it slowly if you come to Japan, and there is an opportunity to drink Healtya coffee.
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Kamaboko




Surimi

Kamaboko is a type of cured surimi.Some are made with fish such as eso (lizardfish) and guchi (white croaker) which are made into kamaboko.It is said that the name came from the comparison of the kamaboko to the tree leaves fluttering down, but the origin is unclear.Kamaboko is the ingredients of Japanese food.
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refer to Kyoto Kamaboko Ibarakiya

Fake food

kamaboko is diet food.The reason is because Kamaboko substitutes for the meat.This is the so called fake food.It is kamaboko in substitution for curry meat. It is kamaboko in substitution for a roasted pork fillet.
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refer to Saint Louis letter

Celebration food

This type of kamaboko is the one that is molded in the form of ‘tai’ (sea bream) or ‘mizuhiki’ (ornamental strings) and so on.Saiku kamoboko in the Oyashiro region of Shimane Prefecture has a long tradition and is famous for the ‘hikidemono’ used for weddings.
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refer to Iwanaga Kuni Store

Sea grapes




Okinawa

Even if people in Japan, there are few opportunities to eat it.It is a local specialty in Okinawa.Do you know Okinawa?Located at the southwestern tip of Japan, Okinawa is a subtropical prefecture that consists of over 160 islands.It is a popular island resort.
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Caulerpa lentillifera

It is seaweed caught in Okinawa.The name is ‘Sea grapes’.The scientific name is ‘Caulerpa lentillifera’.It is called Sea caviar from the form.In old days, only people in Okinawa ate it.However, it spread out in the all over Japan because it was very delicious.There are few edible people because there is little amount of production.
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Nutrients

Sea grapes is rich in minerals.The mineral is necessary for us.On a diet, we lack of the mineral.Sea grapes compensate for lack of mineral.Besides, that has low calories.Please eat it if there is the opportunity when you go to Okinawa.
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Konjac jelly




Prohibition of Sale

The konjac jelly that sale was prohibited in EU, Korea, the United States from 2003.It was the leading role of the diet food till then.However, sale was prohibited because a fatal accident occurred.It is proper measures.
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Improvement

The konjac jelly of the crash type was sold in 2008.When we ate konjac jelly, we had to chew it well.It is improved and we are able to eat without chewing.By this type, there is not the report of the accident.It is a crucial moment of the konjac jelly.
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Popularity is high in Japan

The konjac jelly still has high popularity in Japan.With the feature that konnyaku is rich in dietary fiber, konnyaku jelly is advertised to be better for health, especially for a health diet, than jelly made from gelatin.It is a self-responsibility.
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refer to http://www.mannanlife.co.jp/

Gobou -burdock-




Unhappy

I did not know that there were few people who ate a Gobou(burdock) in the world.I eat a Gobou(burdock) once a week.Kinpira burdock, burdock roll of the beef, burdock salad, etc.All of that food is yummy.I think that the person who has not eaten a Gobou(burdock) is unhappy.
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refer to http://sekirikanako.jugem.jp/?eid=17

Japanese food and Gobou

The Gobou(burdock) is used for Japanese food frequently.The reason is not only taste and a texture.The Gobou(burdock) is rich in dietary fiber.It is expected to have the effect of beautifying your skin.Therefore it may be said that you may be beautiful if you eat Japanese food.
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refer to http://illpop.com/png_foodhtm/vegetable_a09.htm

Diet food

The burdock attracts attention as diet food from the abundance of the dietary fiber.It is processed into various products.Representative one is Gobou(burdock) tea.An ingredient called the saponin is included in the Gobou(burdock) tea.The burdock tea can take in nutrition efficiently.It is expected to have the effect of anti-aging.
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refer to http://shop.gnavi.co.jp/kissui/ns06635/

Japanese healthy beer




150 kilocalorie

The calories and fat contents of beer is high.With a can of 350 ml, 150 kilocalorie is included on the average.It is similar in a hash potato of McDonald’s.It is same that eating potato chip to drink beer is eating potato chip to eat a hash potato.
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Non purine, non sugar

There is the demand of such a health-oriented people, and ‘Non purine, non sugar beer’ is sold in Japan.These beer is popular in Japan.The beer which is high in popularity in that is ‘Sapporo 極 zero’.It is the beer that it is most suitable for diet.
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refer to http://www.sapporobeer.jp/gokuzero/

Beer circumstances in Japan

The beer is classified in a category called ‘beer’, ‘low-malt beer’, ‘the third beer’ in Japan.This is because ratable values are different by raw materials in Japanese Liquor Tax Act.Complexed.The beer may be enough for the beer.
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Black Vinegar




About black vinegar

Black Vinegar was originated in Chinese, but later developed independently in Japan.The straight production center of the Japanese black vinegar is Kagoshima.While it is more than 200 years, the manufacturing method of the black vinegar is the same.
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refer to Kirisshima Black Vinegar

Diet food

The citric acid included in the black vinegar relieve constipation.This is effective for dieting.It is popular as diet food in Japan.The supplement which condensed black vinegar extract is very popular.The black vinegar is used for Japanese food.
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refer to Taruzumi product

The scene is splendid

The black vinegar is put in the pot to age.The pots are displayed outside.I heard that the scene is splendid.I want to go once by all means to Kirishima-shi, Kagoshima that is the straight production center.
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refer to http://dacapo.magazineworld.jp/gulliver/77330/

Warabimochi




Slime

Do you know Dragon Quest?Dragon Quest is game software.The pretty character called the ‘slime’ appears in that.Warabimochi is a Japanese sweet similar to ‘slime’.It may be provided as ‘OMOTENASHI FOOD’ when you go to the Japanese restaurant in summer.It is a traditional Japanese sweet.
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puru puru!

Warabimochi is a jelly-like confection made from brackenstarch and covered or dipped in kinako (sweet toasted soybean flour)(by wikipedia).Enjoy a texture than enjoy taste.It may be take black syrup other than kinako.
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Photo by (c)Tomo.Yun

Diet food

Warabimochi is low-calorie.Therefore it is effective for dieting.It is effective for diet all the more if you cook Warabimochi.The reason is because you need much exercise for the cooking of Warabimochi.Please cook it at home.
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Fish mint tea




Poo street

It had grown near the house where I lived in in old days.We called the street “Poo street”.It is after it becomes adult to have known that the bad-smelling plant is good for health.It is Fish mint.This is swallowed up as a tea break in Japan.
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Detoxification

Detoxification effects, which are now trendy, are expected with it.In addition, it is effective in controlling an itch.There is the case which people of atopic dermatitis take.I hear the taste unique and delicious.
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refer to http://item.rakuten.co.jp/ken-oki/1106/

Dokudami

Fish mint is called ‘dokudami’ in Japan.’doku’ of ‘dokudami’ is a meaning called the poison.However, the poison is not included in fish mint.Why are it called like that?’dami’ of ‘dokudami’ is a meaning called the prohibition.Fish mint tea was drank by protection against poisoning in old days.Poison is prohibition.’doku’ is ‘dami’.Dokudami.
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refer to http://photohito.com/photo/1903906/

Wasabi




Food for the first time

I think that the person who ate a sea cucumber for the first time is a great man.What eat such an unpleasant creature!The person that eat it is considerably cool.There is the food which can not understand a reason that people began to eat it.
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Wasabi roots

It has been eaten in Japan for 1,300 years.It is Wasabi.We generally grate wasabi and eat.Why would grate it?Who would grate it first?It is mysterious like OOPARTS.Besides, the wasabi grows up only at a specific place.The person find it and grate it and eat.Very mysterious.
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Wasabi diet

It is said that wasabi is effective in the restoration of youth.Detoxification effects, which are now trendy, are expected with it.Eat wasabi approximately 3 g before going to bed.You get an effect with only that.I add wasabi in whiskey.It is yummy!
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Soysh Soymilk + Soda




Soymilk

The soymilk is good for health.It is rich in a variety of nutrients.However, the taste is not best at all.Because an appearance resembles milk, we may misunderstand when we drink soymilk.I added sugar to make it sweet like milk, but became bad.What is the best way of drinking soymilk ?
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Rich in nourishment than soymilk.

The product which added soda to soymilk is sold in Japan.The name is ‘Soysh’.People who did not like soymilk researched and developed ‘Soysh’.Therefore it is really easy to drink.Besides, by an original manufacturing method, it is rich in nourishment than soymilk.
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Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd

‘Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd’ has produces ‘Soysh’.Otsuka Pharmaceutical has established a slogan ‘Solve global problem with a soybean.’.The slogan name is ‘Soylution'(Soy + Solution).It is ‘Soysh’ which is rich in high quality protein.May I turn into a beautiful guy if I drink it every day ? Viva, Japanese food.
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refer to Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd

Shirataki




Viva! Noodle

I love noodle.Ramen, Pasta, Chow mein, Rice noodle, etc.ZuruZuruZuru,Slurping Noises.It is yummy even if I eat any noodle.However, they are carbohydrates.I gain weight when I eat them.When I eat noodles, I have a sense of guilt.I don’t Want to !
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Miracle noodle

It is Japanese miracle food sold in Amazon US.The name is ‘Shirataki’.Seemingly it is ordinary noodles.Shirataki is konjac.konjac in thread-like form is called ito konjac (konjac noodles), and the one formed more thinly than ito konjac is known as shirataki.
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Shirataki diet

The etymology of Shirataki is waterfalls that resemble white thread.’waterfalls that resemble white thread’ is called ‘SHIROITO NO TAKI’ in Japan.I eat Shirataki in substitution for noodles.My diet will succeed by Shirataki!
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Black Oolong Tea




Are you careful of your health?

Your life is only once.How do you want to spend your life ?I want to spend my life drinking yummy beer, and eating yummy junk food.It is disgusting to care about my health.I appreciate overeating and overdrinking.This result is as follows.
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Healthy tea

In Japan, healthy tea has been highlighted as well because of a fitness boom.The drink maker sells healthy tea in competition with other companies.The health tea which I recommend in that is black oolong tea.It is easy to drink than any product and go with Japanese food.
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Fat people

It is said that there are few fat people in Japan.It was so in old days.However, in the present age, the eating habits change, and fat people increase.The black oolong tea controls absorption of the fat.Now, it is selling explosively in Japan.
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SoyCarat




Gain weight

I has an unconquerable love for eat snacks.Potato chip, Popcorn, Corn snack, etc.I can’t drink alcohol.In lieu of I drink alcohol, I eat.Therefore, I gain weight.Please look for the food which does not gain weight even if I eat.
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(c)Kyle May

Found it!

I watched TV while eating potato chip as always.Then, the interesting TV commercial came on.The commercial was contents not to gain weight even if they eat even if they eat.I thought that was a dream.It was understood that it was reality when I went to the drugstore hastily.The product name is ‘SoyCarat’.
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Snack revolution in Japan

I bought it at once and ate.The taste is three types.Cheese,Seaweed and Natto,Olive oil and garlic.As for the form, the inside is hollow, and soybeans are contained there.I bought Olive oil and garlic taste.It was yummy.I will become heavy user.Viva, Japanese food,Japanese Snacks!!!
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refer to http://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/product/soycarat/
refer to http://www.noriba.jp/link_file/a-18.html

Japanese pickled vegetables

Traditional Japanese food

It is food culture eaten from ancient times in Japan.It is It is Japanese pickled vegetables.Nukazuke in particular are Japanese special pickles.Nukazuke is vegetables that have been pickled in salted rice bran.
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Rice bran

It is said that the rice bran is very good for beauty.There are the people who substitute rice bran for the face-wash.By an effect of the rice bran, skin seems to become younger.However, it is very stinking.
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Obesity is prevented.

Nukazuke is rich in vitamin B2.Vitamin B2 speeds up the skin metabolism. Therefore Obesity is prevented.If you can purchase rice bran, you can make Nukazuke easily.But you must mix it by hand every day while it is stinking.
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Azuki bean jelly(Yokan)




Chocolate ? Caramel ?

I am denying myself sweets because of my diet.I am restraining myself from eating sweets for my diet.But I want to eat chocolate and a caramel!I look for them like an junkie.I eat this in such a case.It is Azuki bean jelly(Yokan).
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Healthy food

Azuki bean jelly(Yokan) is agar of the adzuki bean jam taste.It is sold by all means if you go to a convenience store and the supermarket in Japan.It may be provided as dessert in a course style as Kaiseki dishes.It is healthy food.
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This photo is Yookanuemon.He is a mascot character of Ogi-shi, Fukuoka, so called Yuruchara.Yokanuemon on Twitter

Japanese food

Azuki bean jelly(Yokan) is one of the Japanese food.Therefore I think that it is one of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.I haveeat the Intangible Cultural Heritage.Will the day when my body is registered with Intangible Cultural Heritage sometime come?
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Miyako Konbu -KELP-

Afternoon snack

I have quitted smoking on a diet.I felt the need to put something in my mouth.I felt that I wanted to always eat between meals.But it was not made because I was on a diet.For me, it was hell.I remembered the afternoon snack that I ate in childhood in such a case.It is so Miyako Konbu -KELP-.
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Viva Kelp

Kelp is rich in calcium and dietary fibers.Besides, it is a healthy food.When it is made soup stock with the Japanese food mainly, it is used, but I eat by afternoon snack.Kelp name is Miyako Konbu.It is classic afternoon snack.
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How to eat

Do you know how to eat that?That sucks it and eats.Bad manners? Erotic? Oh, no! Suck it and absorb an ingredient of the kelt.Suck,suck,suck and when the kelp become sodden, let’s eat.It is yummy.You will have an unprecedented experience.
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Soy pulp

The Japanese food

Tofu is made from soybeans.The soybean is squeezed, and soybean milk is made.Soymilk becomes tofu when a coagulant such as bittern is added.Strained lees of soybean is soy pulp.If you go to the tofu maker in Japan, In some cases, it is provided free.
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Healty recipes

Soy pulp recipes are placed in the food recipe site of Japan.Innumerable recipes are displayed when you search it in a word called “healty recipes””tofu recipes”.The representative Japanese food is a dish called “deutzia(Unohana)”.It is healthy, and the nutritive value is high, too.
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Diet food

You can cook a hamburger steak and the croquette by soy pulp, too.They are lower-calorie than meat.It is ideal diet food.Soy pulp has a use except that we eat.Sizuoka Yuka Kougyou Co.,Ltd. starts manufacturing bioethanol made with soy pulp.Soy pulp may be replaced to oil in the future.
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Canned mackerel

EPA

A phenomenon that canned mackerel was sold out in last summer was caused in Japan.The cause was news about the canned mackerel.An ingredient called EPA is included in canned mackerel.EPA is effective in reducing a fat cell.Because the news was going around also in Japan, canned mackerel disappeared from the supermarket.
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Eat bone and all

I eat canned mackerel boiling in water frequently.The reason is because it is very cheap.The price is $1.Besides, nutritive value is high.That has a high cost performance.Viva, Viva, Canned mackerel ! ! !
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Type

The canned mackerel sold in Japan is three types mainly.Canned mackerel boiling in water, Canned mackerel simmered in miso, Canned mackerel simmered in soy sauce.They are all yummy.Canned high quality mackerel to be more than $5 is sold recently.
refer to http://www.ito-foods.jp/
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