Diabetes measures rice Japanese company manufacturing factory in the Philippines September 20 16:21
In the Philippines, where the number of patients with diabetes is increasing with economic growth, a food manufacturer in Niigata Prefecture will build a factory that manufactures vacuum-packed rice with protein and sugar suppressed using its original technology. A groundbreaking ceremony was held at.
The factory will be built by a food manufacturer in Niigata Prefecture in the suburbs of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, for about 300 million yen. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held on the 20th, attended by around 40 people including representatives of the manufacturer and government officials in the Philippines. I was broken.
This manufacturer has developed rice with less than one-tenth of normal protein and rice with 30% reduction in sugar, using unique technology to ferment lactic acid bacteria in Philippine rice.
The factory to be built will produce such special rice and make it into a vacuum pack, which is to be completed next July.
In the Philippines, eating a large amount of rice without eating meat is common, and as a result of economic growth, the number of diabetic patients has increased by more than 60% over the past 10 years.
The rice developed by the manufacturer is said to be useful for diabetes prevention and diet, and is expected to be in demand for medical institutions as well as the middle class and wealthy people in the Philippines who are becoming more health-conscious.
Kiyosada Egawa, chairman of Biotech Japan, who builds a factory, says, “I want to improve the current situation in the Philippines, which suffers from diabetes, and to export from here to all over Asia.”