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目次 Gold bar? Or expensive candy?The package looks like a gold bar. Of course, you can tell it’s not when you hold it. But you think maybe it’s some expensive candy or something. Then you open the package and you find it’s ”natto” (fermented beans). Then to add to the surprise, you find a piece of real gold leaf on top of the beans. L.C. Kikusui Shokuhin is the company that manufactures the ”Kikusui Gold Natto”. |
Totally odor freeTo tell the truth, Nakata never liked the smell of ”natto” since his childhood. But the smell of ”natto” never bothered him throughout the factory tour. Kikusui Shokuhin did a lot of research to develop ”natto” that has very little of the often unpleasant odor. That’s why many people who do not like ”natto” say that they can eat the ”natto” made here. Actually besides running the company, Kikuchi wears another hat as a ”natto” researcher and runs various research projects about ”natto”. He was doing a research on a type of soybean that is very delicious but not suited for ”natto”, and how to make them into good ”natto”. The ”Kikusui Gold Natto” is a result of such research. Other types of natto include a health conscious product, ”Kikusui Mineral Natto” which feature minerals from the oceans off Oarai. |
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Best the way you like itSo we asked the ”natto researcher” a question. |