【Best 5 by Brand】AJINOMOTO FROZEN FOOD Co., Inc.

The most recent sales ranking of Best 5 of each popular brands for household frozen foods. First of all, we introduce you “sales Best 5” of Ajinomoto frozen foods. The company manufactures “Aji” Gyoza ” which is the 1st ranked sales among frozen foods. No. 1 Gyoza(ギョーザ) Among the number of household frozen foods (roughly 10,000 items are around), it boasts 15th consecutive sales first place. Not limited to frozen foods, Japan’s best as a gyoza product! And it is written in the package. It was released in 1972 and has a history of 46 years. In 1997, it was improved to “Gyoza” which can be cooked with “no oil”. Moreover, […]

Frozen “EDAMAME”(Green soybeans)

Frozen “EDAMAME” is the one of the most popular frozen vegetables in Japan. It’s boiled and frozen green soybeans in pods. The type of salted Frozen “EDAMAME” is very easy to eat that you can have it only out of the refrigerator and naturally let it defrost. It’s a popular type of snack which goes well with beer in Japan. Most of the products are imported and the most reliable import partner is Taiwan. By the way, “EDAMAME” is very popular in the U.S. as one of diet foods or healthy snacks. Well, isoflavone, one of the components in soybean help to produce female hormone. It’s healthy food especially for […]

Large Baked Onigiri(rice ball)

◆Large Baked Onigiri(rice ball) NISSUI(Nippon Suisan Kaisha,Ltd.) http://www.nissui.co.jp Over one hundred million Large Baked Onigiris sold a year! This amazing product was developed by NISSUI, the well known global fishery. They are also one of the biggest frozen prcessed food manufacturers. So you know Japanese staple diet is rice. Rice balls are made from steamed rice with some salt. It is Japanese traditional handy snack that has plenty of variations. Baked rice balls are glazed with soy sauce. Can you image the smell of baked soy sauce? It’s like Teriyaki BBQ. The aroma of baked soy sauce is popular in Japan. Nissi’s Baked Onigiris are microwaveable. They are larger than the competitor’s. When you are hungry,you can have […]

Sanuki Udon

◆Sanuki-Udon TableMark Co.,Ltd. http://www.tablemark.co.jp Udon is one of most popular noodles in Japan that is made from flour,salt and water. Sanuki is the name of famous area in Kagawa prefecture where tha people have udon almost daily. There are so many udon restaurants in Sanuki area. And the udon restaurants attract visiters from all over Japan. But now you can enjoy Sanuki udon at home and save your trip to Sanuki. Thanks to TableMark, Sanuki udon is available at your nearest supermarket.(in Japan or the world cities ) This “heat it and eat it” Sanuki udon is easy to prepare (takes only 1.5 minutes) and taste just as good as the one […]

Gyoza (Dumplings)

◆Gyoza (Dumplings) Ajinomoto Frozen Food http://www.ffa.ajinomoto.com/ This is the most popular frozen food product with Japanese consumers. Of course these taste very good, and when you cooked them you’d find surprising technology of Japanese food industry. When you fry the dumplings, you don’t need oil nor water for steaming. Why you get non-stick and well cooking ? Because each dumplings has functional water(ice and flour) for steaming and oil for baking at the bottom. What a surprise! Then everybody can cook without failure.