Japan's No. 2 miso maker to build seasoning factory in Thailand

Growing demand for healthy foods whets appetite for 'shio koji' in Southeast Asia

HIROKI MINAI, Nikkei staff writer

 

TOKYO -- Hanamaruki Foods, Japan's second-largest miso maker, is set to build a factory in Thailand for liquid salted rice malt, a natural seasoning that is finding favor overseas as demand for healthy food grows.

 

Company President Toshio Hanaoka says he sees opportunity overseas, given that shio koji, as the seasoning is known in Japan, is more popular in Europe than miso -- another Japanese condiment. With year-on-year overseas sales increasing sixfold in 2017, the company hopes the added capacity will boost shio koji exports to other Southeast Asian countries.

 

Construction of the 16,000-sq.-meter facility, located 90 km north of Bangkok, will start in January 2019 with first shipments scheduled for January 2020. Hanamaruki plans to invest about 1 billion yen ($8.9 million) in the factory, which will produce about 1 million liters of the seasoning per year.

 

Full story: https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Japan-s-No.-2-miso-maker-to-build-seasoning-factory-in-Thailand

 

-- NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW 2018-10-24

I'm trying to come up with a "miso horny" joke, but it's just not coming to me.

 

Ideas anybody?

miso might be healthy for some people, but one serving has more oxalates double your daily maximum when you have

 

gall / kidney / prostate STONES !!!!

 

the oxalates will bind to calcium in the organs and form stones

 

same goes with "overdose" of spinach (smoothies), cacao powder, buckwheat (pancakes)