Sansai (Mountain Vegetables)
山菜 (山菜)
Pourquoi sourcer au Japon
Gunma and Akita mountain regions maintain traditional wild-forage cooperatives; sansai is uniquely Japanese cuisine and SEO-positioned as 'wild Japanese mountain vegetable'.
Spec clé
Bitter / astringent phytochemical profile; high mineral / dietary fibre content; species-specific bioactives (warabi pterosin, fukinotou petasin).
Produit fini typique
Fine-dining sansai-temura, frozen pickled sansai mix, traditional-craft retail.
At a glance
- Fournisseurs répertoriés
- 1 fournisseur
- MOQ typique
- 5–25 kg fresh; 1–10 kg processed (boiled, pickled, frozen)
- Délai typique
- 6–10 weeks (allocation-constrained)
- Régions d'origine
- Gunma, Niigata, Akita, Yamagata
- Catégorie
- Ingrédients alimentaires
- Saison de récolte
- Spring (March – June) — varies by species and region
- Statut réglementaire au Japon
- Food product; cyanogenic glycoside cooking-required for some species
- Nom japonais
- 山菜
- Romaji
- 山菜
À propos de cet ingrédient
Wild-foraged seasonal mountain vegetables: warabi (bracken fern), zenmai (royal fern), fukinotou (butterbur sprout), kogomi (ostrich fern), udo, takenoko (bamboo shoot), tara-no-me (angelica tree shoot), among others. Gunma, Niigata, Akita, and Yamagata host the principal commercial sansai harvest. Distinct from cultivated vegetables; wild-forage carries traceability and place-of-origin storytelling. Increasingly used in fine-dining export and as functional-food ingredients on the back of bitter / phytochemical compounds.
Statut réglementaire
| Japon | Food product; cyanogenic glycoside cooking-required for some species |
|---|---|
| Union européenne | Food import; allergen labelling per EU rules |
| États-Unis | GRAS post-cooking; FDA Prior Notice required |
| Chine | GACC food facility registration |