The Food Ingredients Department provides solutions globally to help people live better and healthier by using the Group's comprehensive capabilities, which are not only material proposals, but also manufacturing, processing, application proposals and regulatory functions.

Business Overview

Food ingredients, food additives:

Sweeteners (trehalose and others), enzymes, hydrocolloids, seasonings, shelf life extenders, preservatives, flavors, functional ingredients, nutritional ingredients, nutrient premix, contacted manufacturing, materials for agriculture, fisheries, and livestock (agricultural chemicals and materials, feed and feed additives)

We own original application labs for broad applications from breadmaking to processed foods located in Okayama and Tokyo (Hayashibara), Kyoto (Nagase ChemteX), Singapore and China so that we can deliver products optimized to customers’ needs.

TREHA™ is a functional saccharide that suppresses quality degradation caused by freezing or drying, it is used in a wide variety of foods including Japanese and Western sweets, bread and various types of boxed lunches

We have proprietary functional ingredients such as mono-glucosyl hesperidin and Fibryxa™ produced by Hayashibara and phosphatidylserine (PS) produced by Nagase ChemteX Corporation. We will roll out original solutions globally to contribute to better health