Kaneka Sun Spice Co., Ltd. Ryukoku University joins the “Wakayama Prefecture Aridagawa Town Grape Sansho Pro ject”

[Kaneka Sun Spice Co., Ltd.] Ryukoku University joins the “Wakayama Prefecture Aridagawa Town Grape Sansho Project” ​
Kaneka Sun Spice Co., Ltd. Press release: November 15, 2024 Ryukoku University joins the “Wakayama Prefecture Aridagawa Town Grape Sansho Project” We want to protect the
world-famous Japanese spice!
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Kaneka Sun Spice Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Yodogawa-ku, Osaka City, Representative Director: Hiroyuki Okada) has been involved in the sustainable activity “Wakayama Prefecture Aridagawa Town Grape Sansho Project” since 2022 with Shinohata Farm, a Japanese pepper farmer, and Ryukoku University management. We will further revitalize our efforts by adding the undergraduate Fujioka seminar. ■Three people have one thought Since 2019, Ryukoku University Fujioka Seminar has been working on a project to connect the birthplace of grape sansho to the future with Aridagawa Town, Wakayama Prefecture. The philosophy is the same as our “Wakayama Prefecture Aridagawa Town Grape Sansho Project”. To sustain the production of Aridagawa-cho grape sansho into the future. Comrades with the same thoughts, they hit it off right away. Shinohata Farm and Kaneka Sun Spice have agreed to form a partnership by adding Ryukoku University to the cooperation agreement. ■Image of agriculture-industry-academia collaboration
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/76534/26/76534-26-50877c62f0d9edea98003ef190739381-2162×1137.png ■Possibilities expand with the addition of Ryukoku University The strength of the Fujioka Seminar at Ryukoku University is the flexible imagination of its students. Because they are not familiar with sansho compared to older people, they don’t have the fixed idea that sansho is eel, so they are able to develop surprising uses for it. If you add the many spices of Kaneka Sun Spice to create a versatile spice…the possibilities are endless. We are planning to accept student internships from Ryukoku University and jointly develop spices in our laboratory, which has over 50 types of spices.
https://prcdn.freetls.fastly.net/release_image/76534/26/76534-26-dc22ba681444136fafc48e01d9c5ff51-3312×2209.jpg ■Issues with Japanese pepper that are difficult to see The biggest issue with sansho is that the yield is decreasing year by year due to the aging of farmers, but I also feel that an increasing number of people don’t know the real flavor of sansho. . Nowadays, the price of Japanese sansho has become too high, and most of the sansho sold at supermarkets is made from Chinese pepper. Originally, Japanese sansho and Chinese sansho have completely different flavors, so they should be used separately, but I think there are many people who don’t know this and use sansho in dishes that use sansho and end up not liking them. I feel it. In fact, one of this year’s new employees chose our company to work because he loves sansho so much. When I was a student, I happened to be working part-time at a ramen restaurant that used Japanese sansho, and when I tried it for the first time, I was so shocked that it changed my life, and I wondered, “What was sansho before?” It seems like it is. If more people can have more
opportunities to experience the flavor of Aridagawa grape sansho, more people will naturally like sansho, and more people will want to protect Japanese sansho. …Through this partnership with Ryukoku University, we would like to further expand our approach to multiple fields and create a major trend.