Beverage Companies of Japan: Yakult, Asahi Soft Drinks, Kagome Co., Ltd., Calpis, Sawanotsuru, UCC Ueshima Coffee Co., Nada-Gog

Chapters: Yakult, Asahi Soft Drinks, Kagome Co., Ltd., Calpis, Sawanotsuru, UCC Ueshima Coffee Co., Nada-Gogō, Yamazaki Distillery, Cheerio, Ito En, Sangaria, Meiji Dairies, Gekkeikan, Morinaga Milk Industry, Morinaga Hokuriku Dairy, Black Nikka,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yakult Yakuruto) is a Japanese probiotic milk-like product made by fermenting a mixture of skimmed milk with a special strain of the bacterium Lactobacillus casei Shirota. It was created by Minoru Shirota who graduated from the Medical School of Kyoto University in 1930. In 1935, he started manufacturing and selling Yakult. Official claims state that the name is derived from jahurto, an older form of jogurto, the Esperanto word for "yogurt". Since then, Yakult has also introduced a line of beverages for the Japanese market that contain Bifidobacterium breve bacteria, and has also used its lactobacilli research to develop cosmetics. More recently, the Yakult Honsha played a major role in developing the chemotherapy drug irinotecan (Camptosar, CPT-11). After its introduction in Japan and Taiwan, Yakult was first sold in Brazil in 1966, due to the large number of Japanese immigrants in the country, before it was marketed elsewhere. Today, Yakult is sold in 31 countries, although its bacteria cultures are provided from a mother strain from Japan regardless of production location. Yakult is marketed in different sizes. In Australia, Europe, India, and Indonesia, Yakult comes in 65mL bottles. In the Americas, Japan, Philippines and South Korea (where it is known as 야쿠르트), 80 ml bottles are available, the same applies in Mexico, one of Yakult's largest selling markets. In Thailand (where it is known as ยาคูลท์), Singapore (where it is known as 益多 yì duō in Mandarin Chinese and...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=392184