Food ingredients
Ingredients used in Japanese food and beverage applications — traditional foodstuffs, teas, culinary oils, fermented seasonings, thickeners, and sweeteners. 17 ingredients.
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Teas
5Matcha, sencha, hojicha, genmaicha, mugicha, and other Japanese teas.
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Oils & fats
4Culinary oils used in Japanese cooking — sesame oil, rice bran oil, perilla oil, walnut oil.
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Seasonings
4Fermented seasonings (miso, mirin, vinegars, shio koji) and umami sources.
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Thickeners & gelling agents
2Hydrocolloids and traditional starches — agar, kudzu starch, alginic acid.
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Sweeteners
1Traditional Japanese sweeteners — Okinawa brown sugar, kinako (roasted soybean flour).
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Staple foods
1Traditional Japanese foodstuffs and staple ingredients.
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Food · Thickeners & gelling agents
Agar
寒天 (Kanten) · INCI: Agar (cosmetic use)
Food · Seasonings
Black Vinegar (Kurozu)
黒酢 (Kurozu) · INCI: Not applicable (food use)
Food · Seasonings
Bonito Extract (Katsuobushi)
鰹節エキス (Katsuobushi ekisu) · INCI: Not applicable (food use)
Food · Teas
Genmaicha (Brown Rice Tea)
玄米茶 (Genmaicha) · INCI: Not applicable (food use primarily)
Food · Teas
Hojicha (Roasted Green Tea)
ほうじ茶 (Hōjicha) · INCI: Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract (for cosmetic use)
Food · Staple foods
Kinako (Roasted Soybean Flour)
きな粉 (Kinako) · INCI: Glycine Soja (Soybean) Flour (cosmetic use)
Food · Thickeners & gelling agents
Kudzu Starch
葛粉 (Kuzuko) · INCI: Pueraria Lobata Root Extract (for cosmetic uses, distinct from starch)
Food · Teas
Matcha Powder
抹茶 (Matcha) · INCI: Camellia Sinensis Leaf Powder (for cosmetic grade) / not applicable for food grade
Food · Seasonings
Mirin
みりん (Mirin) · INCI: Not applicable (food use)
Food · Teas
Mugicha (Barley Tea)
麦茶 (Mugicha) · INCI: Not applicable (food use primarily)
Food · Sweeteners
Okinawa Brown Sugar (Kokuto)
黒糖 (Kokutō) · INCI: Saccharum Officinarum Extract / Sugar Cane Extract (cosmetic preparations)
Food · Oils & fats
Perilla Seed Oil
えごま油 (Egoma abura) · INCI: Perilla Ocymoides Seed Oil (cosmetic uses)
Food · Oils & fats
Rice Bran Oil
米油 (Komeyu) · INCI: Oryza Sativa Bran Oil (for cosmetic use)
Food · Seasonings
Rice Vinegar
米酢 (Komezu) · INCI: Not applicable (food use)
Food · Teas
Sencha Extract
煎茶エキス (Sencha ekisu) · INCI: Camellia Sinensis Leaf Extract (for cosmetic use)
Food · Oils & fats
Sesame Oil
ごま油 (Goma abura) · INCI: Sesamum Indicum Seed Oil (for cosmetic use)
Food · Oils & fats
Walnut Oil
クルミ油 (Kurumi-yu) · INCI: Juglans Regia Seed Oil