What is the best seasoning in Japan this year? “15th Seasoning Championship 2024” final judging will be held from October 16th at Hanshin Umeda Main Store Image
URL: Japan Vegetable Sommelier Association Press release: September 27, 2024 What is the best seasoning in Japan this year? “15th Seasoning Championship 2024” final judging will be held from October 16th at Hanshin Umeda Main Store Which product will shine as the best in Japan? Japan’s largest seasoning event will be held, gathering the best seasonings from all over the country! Image
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/110263/91/110263-91-775f6d07ce1380d2f9626b9dbf352923-2584×1827.jpg 15th Seasoning Championship 2024 [Seasoning Championship 2024 Final Judgment Overview] Venue: Hanshin Umeda Main Store 1st floor food festival terrace (1-13-13 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka) Event period: October 16, 2024 (Wednesday) to October 20, 2024 (Sunday) Reception until noon Judging method: 1. Scores from the general taste judging committee to be held at Hanshin Umeda Main Store on Monday, October 7, 2024 ※Details are below 2.Scores based on venue voting *Judgment based on tastings 3. Sales results at Hanshin Umeda main store (including EC site sales) *Reception until noon on October 20th (Sunday) 4. First screening score *Determined by the total of 1. to 4. above Award details: Overall ranking (1st to 3rd place), awards in each category, prizes, etc. determined Announcement: At the results presentation (special stage on Food Festival Terrace) to be held from 15:00 on Sunday, October 20, 2024 ■15th Seasoning Championship Special Page : https://www.vege-fru.com/choumiryo/championship/ ●General Taste Judging Committee Venue: Hanshin Umeda Main Store 6th floor community studio Date and time: October 7, 2024 (Monday) Part 1 14:00-15:30 Part 2 18:00-19:30 Contents: Taste evaluation of 50 items that passed the first screening Judge: Hanshin Department Store member and seasoning fan Contents: Before the event, a tasting and judging session was held for all 50 seasonings that passed the final screening *Interviews are available regarding taste evaluation (advance notice required) Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/110263/91/110263-91-e603993a196c4053b06618f91242cbcc-480×360.jpg ●Results presentation & award ceremony Venue: Hanshin Umeda Main Store 1st floor food festival terrace special stage Date and time: Sunday, October 20, 2024 from 15:00 Presenter: Seasoning Championship Judge MICHIKO (Professional Seasoning Sommelier/Professional Vegetable Sommelier) Contents: Announcement of overall 1st to 3rd place, highest gold award in each category, and winners. An award ceremony will be held after the presentation The announcement will be live on the official Instagram of Hanshin Department Store 1st floor [Shokusai Terrace] https://www.instagram.com/hanshin_1ffoodevent/ *After the award ceremony, interviews with award-winning manufacturers are possible
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/110263/91/110263-91-9b034397310e595bad585974fa7ac596-1706×960.jpg Last year’s presentation (special stage)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/110263/91/110263-91-91b1519b4f077b631590c9990fbd1bec-1706×960.jpg Last year’s award ceremony: On the far right: Mr. MICHIKO, chairman of the judging committee, followed by last year’s overall 1st to 3rd place manufacturers Last year, Chiba Prefecture’s local seasoning “Mushroom Ichiban” became No.1! Last year’s No. 1 was Chiba Prefecture’s local seasoning “Mushroom Ichiban”. After winning the award, the product received a flood of media coverage and became a huge hit, selling 15,000 copies a month! This year, we will introduce a variety of products, including “Local Type” that makes use of local ingredients, “New Flavor Type” that further evolves popular products, and “New Standard Type” that uses traditional
manufacturing methods and expands new ways to enjoy food. Many attractive seasonings rich in flavor have made it to the final judging panel. “Seasonings” that are sure to be a hit and will create a new Japanese food culture in the future will fight for the top.
https://www.vege-fru.com/choumiryo/championship/2023/list/ (Click here for last year’s results) [Reference]《14th Seasoning Championship 2023 Overall 1st Place & Local Category Best Award》 “Mushroom best” ／ Fudo Shokubo Co., Ltd. (Chiba Prefecture)
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/110263/91/110263-91-c291ebb1dd7047e18e818d570d3b8e2b-1080×1080.png “Mushroom Ichiban” / Fudo Shokubo Co., Ltd. Chiba Prefecture is the largest producer of mushrooms in Japan! A local seasoning born from the FM radio station “bayfm”‘s “Let’s make Chiba’s local seasoning project”. Following on from “Negiichiban,” which took second place overall at the “13th Seasoning Championship 2022,” this is a masterpiece filled with the love of Chiba that was completed after nearly 100 prototypes while receiving ideas and opinions from local listeners. Two types of mushrooms, coarsely chopped and paste, are blended so that you can enjoy the flavor and texture of mushrooms from Chiba Prefecture. An edible seasoning made of fresh mushrooms seasoned with soy sauce, butter, etc. 15th Seasoning Championship 2024 Seasonings that passed the final examination (50 items) All-purpose seasoning category: Jewel-like onion pickle sauce/SOUR/M.vege (Kyoto Prefecture) All-purpose seasoning category: Crispy salted koji lemon cashew nuts/Kikkoman Kokoro Dining Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) All-purpose seasoning category: Supervised by Horishi Puchi Puchi Lemon
Mustard/Mimona Co., Ltd. (Wakayama Prefecture) All-purpose seasoning category: Oriental Dressing/Ferichita Research Institute (Yamanashi Prefecture) All-purpose seasoning category: Aho Koji/Yakuzen Garlic Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) All-purpose seasoning category: Aogiri Shio Tankan/Yakushima Karin LLC (Kagoshima Prefecture) All-purpose seasoning category: Refreshing salt sauce flavored with plum meat and bonito/CICCIA Co., Ltd. (Hyogo Prefecture) Spicy category: Chili pepper and Akita spicy miso sauce, shitterage ginger/Akita Foodi LLC (Akita Prefecture) Spicy category: Remi Hirano’s Chili Oil / Ajinobo Co., Ltd. (Osaka Prefecture) World Seasoning Category: Mr. Oh’s Thai Sauce (Khao Man Gai) / Mr. Oh’s Thai Sauce (Ibaraki Prefecture) World seasoning category: Salted raw pepper “Hayakumi”/AKO Co., Ltd. (Hiroshima Prefecture) World seasoning category: East Port Seafood XO Sauce/Kefimeres Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) Soy sauce category: Kumamoto Meisters Amakuchi ginger soy sauce/Hoshisan Co., Ltd. (Kumamoto Prefecture) Soy sauce department: Sorachisha Ikura soy sauce/Loco Farm Village Co., Ltd. (Hokkaido) Soy sauce category: Kare sauce/Izumiman Jozo Co., Ltd. (Aichi Prefecture) Vinegar Department: Enmei Vinegar 330ml/Kondo Vinegar Co., Ltd. (Shizuoka Prefecture) Vinegar
department: 5x concentrated vinegar/Daiko Sangyo Co., Ltd. (Okayama Prefecture) Japanese traditional seasoning category: Mastane. Wooden Oke Plain/Planum Co., Ltd. (Mastanane of the Southern Wind) (Fukuoka Prefecture) Traditional Japanese seasonings category: Nigori sauce/Kadocho Co., Ltd. (Wakayama) Salt category: Kuruma Shrimp Salt/Akiho Fisheries Cooperative Women’s Division (Yamaguchi Prefecture) Salt category: Shio-koji salt / Farmers and condiment tenant farmers (Sugisui General Incorporated Association) (Ishikawa Prefecture) Dashi Department: Tomoe Hidaka Kelp Dashi Colorful 500ml PET/Fukuyama Jozo Co., Ltd. (Hokkaido) Dashi soup category: Shiitake mushroom shop’s authentic soup/Mori Shoten Co., Ltd. (Oita Prefecture) Dashi Department: Northern Treasure – Scalloped Kombu Dashi/PLUS One Co., Ltd. (Hokkaido) Bread Companion Category: Green Meyer Lemon Marmalade from Awaji Island/Central Operation System Co., Ltd. (Hyogo Prefecture) Bread Companion Department: Naruto Kintoki & Honey Butter/Central Operation System Co., Ltd. (Hyogo Prefecture) Bread companion category: Tago Garlic Mayonnaise/Lol Co., Ltd. (Miyagi Prefecture) Local Category: Spicy Matsukawaura Aosa / Marli Foods Co., Ltd. (Fukushima Prefecture) Local category: Hiroshima Oyster/Kusuhara Bottle Canning Industry Co., Ltd. (Hiroshima Prefecture) Local Category: Takahata Rich Sauce/Takahata Farm Co., Ltd. (Yamagata Prefecture) Local category: Crazy onion jam using onions from Awaji Island/Uzunokuni Minami-Awaji Co., Ltd. (Hyogo Prefecture) Local category: Soudabushi oil on ramen/Yamaa Co., Ltd. (Kochi Prefecture) Local section: Hamano Nori Basil/Fluir LLC (Miyagi Prefecture) Rice companion category: Side dish miso made from barley koji aged with raw soy sauce / Kono Vinegar Miso Manufacturing Factory Ltd. (Okayama Prefecture) Food accompaniment category: Edomae first-pick raw seaweed tsukudani/Enchu Foods Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) Rice Companion Category: Daruma’s Strongest Miso / Schatz Food Company Co., Ltd. (Kagoshima Prefecture) Rice companion category: Shiitake miso/Mine Nature Park Mine Kobo (Kanagawa Prefecture) Dressing department: Aomikan ponzu dressing/Amandarina LLC (Kanagawa Prefecture) Dressing category: Pineapple dressing/Kouri Ocean Tower (Okinawa Prefecture) Dressing Department: Pure Awaji Island Onion Dressing Yuzu/Hamburger GOSOU (Osaka Prefecture) Ponzu Category: Additive-free Yaemon ponzu with salt from Iwato / The dining YOSA Yaemon (Mie Prefecture) Ponzu Category: The ultimate ponzu sauce that will leave you impressed “Tsubopon”/Le Tsubo (Kyoto Prefecture) Miso category: Sweet Sumo Miso/Tsuru Miso Jozo Co., Ltd. (Fukuoka Prefecture) Miso category: Curry miso/Daigen Miso Co., Ltd. (Osaka Prefecture) Spice department: POKENEGI green onion salt Japanese flavor/TFY Co., Ltd. (Saitama Prefecture) Spice Category: Mikan Dashi/Atsushi Tamura’s Elementary School for Adults (Aichi Prefecture) Sauce category: CRAFT 14 SAUCE ORIGINAL/M’s cocina (Kagawa Prefecture) Sauce department: AWESOMEET Wagyu beef seasoning Yakiniku Kankitsu/Ebara Foods Industry Co., Ltd. (Kanagawa Prefecture) Sauce department: Soy sauce cutlet sauce/Marujo Seizu Co., Ltd. (Fukui Prefecture) Sauce Department: Steak Sauce Miso and Soy Sauce/Kinoene Soy Sauce Co., Ltd. (Chiba Prefecture) Image
URL: https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/110263/91/110263-91-14aa19f32bf40c62a00432a89b621a20-3024×2234.jpg 183 entry seasonings ●Sales event ・15th Seasoning Championship 2024 Sales Event Venue: Hanshin Umeda Main Store 1st floor food festival terrace Period: October 16th (Wednesday) to 21st (Monday), 2024 10:00-20:00 Products to be sold: 50 items from the 15th Seasoning Championship Final Judgment, approximately 20 items from the 15th Seasoning Championship Special Award, approximately 70 past
award-winning items, and other related products scheduled. ・EC site sales Period: October 1, 2024 (Tuesday) 10:00 to October 18, 2024 (Thursday) 20:00 *Pre-order sales Sales products: 15th Seasoning Championship 2024 final judging 50 items Hanshin Department Store E-STORES https://web.hh-online.jp/hanshin/ ●Talk show
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/110263/91/110263-91-2e117cd8ab84c2f7004668acb40ea8f9-408×355.jpg Seasoning Championship Judge Chief MICHIKO “Seasoning Utilization Talk Show by Seasoning Sommelier Professional “MICHIKO” “Make your dining table HAPPY with seasonings!” Date and time: October 20th (Sunday) 11:00-11:30 Scheduled Participation fee: Free (limited number of people may apply)
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https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/110263/91/110263-91-2191e1d15e001ae5920c7025c42a54ea-720×768.jpg 14th Seasoning Championship 2024 Overall 1st Place Mushroom
Best/Fudoshokubo Co., Ltd. This event is held to spread the appeal of seasonings to society and revitalize the seasoning industry. The purpose is to discover local seasonings from all over the country that are known only to those in the know, as well as seasonings recommended by manufacturers, and to make society aware of their existence. Award-winning products have sales 5 to 10 times higher than the previous year It is an event that has received a great response. Derivative events such as the “Dressing Championship” and “Bread Friends Championship” are also popular. The award-winning products have been featured on TV and other media, drawing a lot of attention to the unique seasonings. ■Seasoning Championship Official Website: https://vege-fru.com/choumiryo/championship/2024/ ■Seasoning Championship Official Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/eventchomiryo/ ■“Seasoning Championship 2023” News Release “Seasoning Championship 2023” This year’s “No. 1 seasoning” has been decided as “Mushroom No. 1”! ! Local seasoning from Chiba Prefecture wins award! ■“2nd Dressing Championship” News Release [2nd Dressing Championship] The best dressing in Japan is Gunma Prefecture’s “carrot dressing that does not use any water”! About the Japan Vegetable Sommelier Association Founded: August 7, 2001 Representative Director: Eiji Fukui Location: Pier West Square 1F, 1-11-8 Tsukuda, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Business: Providing and training vegetable sommelier qualifications Planning, developing and providing various courses and content URL: https://www.vege-fru.com/