Description
🚚 The fastest delivery time: delivered 2-day.
🐝 Supplier / Origin: MIKUNIYA Co., Ltd.
🔖 Certification: Obtained ISO9001 certification
🌱 Manufacturer introduction: https://mikuniya-nori.jp/en/
MIKUNIYA’s business principle is based on“osumi-tsuki” (authoritative assurance) of the sushi Chef.
Mikuniya is the most advanced Japanese nori manufacturer in Hiroshima, Japan. We hope to provide many customers with truly high-quality products.
Detailed introduction
After the Pacific War, the Hiroshima nori fishing grounds that had been cultivated from the coast since the Edo period disappeared, but Mikuniya's love for nori remains.
Mikuniya's seaweed is spread all over the country, and it has been purchasing high-quality and high-grade raw materials, which can not only meet the needs of general customers, but also meet the requirements of food professionals.
The seaweed is carefully roasted according to its quality, using seaweed that matches various conditions such as color, aroma, and taste.
Soy sauce seaweed is cooked in a secret sauce made from carefully selected ingredients such as Setouchi shrimp.
Purchasing Seaweed
Laver is a natural product that is easily affected by climate and terroir. Quality varies by origin, time of harvest and year, making sourcing difficult but fun.
The seaweed is harvested from autumn to winter. During this time, we will travel to beaches all over the country. From various special seaweeds, we find the "beautiful color, elegant sweetness, and melt-in-the-mouth" seaweed that Mikuniya has been seeking. . We will identify and buy.
Nori processing
The factory is located in Ota-cho, Anki, Hiroshima Prefecture, where there are many forests, fresh air and a good environment.
Workers work in the clean room after being sterilized in the air-bathroom, and use the latest equipment such as metal detectors and foreign object detectors for safety management.
High-quality seaweed recognized by many chefs
In Japan, 8 billion pieces of nori are harvested each year for primary processing. Mikuniya will only bid about 3% of the highest quality nori in the nori auction, which many sushi chefs love.
In addition, it is processed as a high-quality home-grown seaweed in department stores and high-end food stores across Japan, and inquiries from overseas restaurants such as London and Paris have been increasing in recent years.
Roasted seaweed that fully utilizes the flavor of the seaweed from each production area
"Yaki nori" is roasted by craftsmen according to the quality of each piece of nori, which is full of aroma, and is immediately put into bags, so that the aroma of freshly baked seaweed can be preserved.
The Ariake Sea in Kyushu, Tokushima in Shikoku, Mikawa Bay in Aichi Prefecture, Chiba and other places of origin have completely different tastes.
The Secret of the Best Nori
Winter is the nori harvest season, and we will participate in nori auctions held at 20 locations across the country. Hundreds of samples of seaweed harvested this year are lined up in the auction, and we will review them one by one to find high-quality seaweed.
Among Japanese nori, the most famous is the seaweed from the Ariake Sea of Kyushu. More than 100 large and small rivers rich in nutrients flow into the Ariake Sea, the largest shallow bay in Kyushu. The mixture of seawater and freshwater is very suitable for the growth of nori. Nori harvested in the Ariake Sea is called "Ariake Nori", and its high-quality taste is widely known.
There are about 1,000 nori specialty stores in Japan, but only about 40 nori specialty stores have the right to bid for "Ariake Nori". Mikuniya is a company with bidding rights, specializing in advanced bidding, so you can buy the best seaweed from Ariake first.
🛍 Product Information :
This seaweed is an option for vegetarians, unlike other soy seaweed, it does not use animal raw materials and does not use chemical seasonings.
10 Reasons to Add Nori to Your Daily Diet
1. Vitamin C for beautiful skin
About 10 sheets of toasted Nori contain 1.5 times more vitamin C than 1 mandarin orange. Vitamin C reduces melanin production, prevents skin spots and help fading spots. Another beneficiary is smoker who loses vitamin C continuously by nicotine. In general, vitamin C is not heat resistance and it is destroyed by heat cooking. However, vitamin C contained in Nori is heat resistant and help efficient vitamin C intake.
2. Dietary fiber cleans you out!
About 1/3 of Nori consists of dietary fiber (double of spinach). Fiber is known to help normalizing bowel movement, which leads; relieving constipation that many women often suffered, lowering blood cholesterol, preventing arteriosclerosis, diabetes, colon cancer and other geriatric diseases. Compared with the fiber contained in vegetables, Nori fiber is said to be softer (more flexible). That aspect mitigates the fiber disadvantage to damage the stomach or intestinal wall. It is also said that softer fiber helps synthesizing vitamins by gut flora and removing harmful amines and metals in the intestine.
3. Nori for children
Nori contains 12 kinds of vitamins. A Child necessary daily intake of vitamin A is 500ug which 2 sheets of Nori can provide. Nori is recommended for your child who hesitates to eat sufficient vegetables.
4. Vitamin B1 and B2 recover fatigue
About 3 sheets of Nori contain vitamin B1 and B2 equivalent to pork shoulder loin (about 1 sliced meat / 30 g), which is an adult women’s recommended daily intake. Vitamin B1 and B2 can turn carbohydrates into energy efficiently, so taking those 3 together should help quick recovery from fatigue. We assume “Onigiri” (rice ball, carbohydrate with Nori, vitamin B1/B2 around) is a quite rationale and unique invention for Japanese.
5. Iron for anemia
It is common to sat, iron for anemia, liver and spinach for iron. We would like to present new idea. 5 sheets of Nori contain equivalent amount of iron to; a slice of beef liver (about 40g), a bunch of boiled spinach, 8 bottles of milk (1 200cc), 1.7 eggs. Liver, spinach and Nori for iron.
6. Calcium reduces irritation
Nori is rich in minerals (especially calcium and iodine) which people today tend to lack. 2 sheets of Nori contain equivalent amount of calcium to 15cc milk, and 1/2 egg. Calcium not only builds strong bones but also prevents osteoporosis and relieves irritation. Sufficient calcium intake is highly recommended for a growing child and also during pregnancy.
7. Rich in EPA
Nori contains plentiful beta-carotene and EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid). Beta-carotene is well known nutrient for cancer prevention. EPA is a fatty acid also contained in blue fish such as sardines and saury. It is one of the nutrient receives high attention recently as it reduces bad cholesterol and triglycerides (cause obesity) and help preventing lifestyle diseases.
8. Taurine prevents lifestyle diseases
Nori is also rich in taurine. Taurine reduces bad cholesterol. Less bad cholesterol should lead less possibility of hypertension, vascular disorders, cerebral thrombosis, myocardial infarction and heart failure. In addition, may work for hangover, chronic hepatitis, endometriosis, and diabetes.
9. Nori (Protein) and Wine/Beer
Do you know your liver consumes protein to process and breakdown alcohol to eliminate from your body? Taking protein with drink helps and enhances your liver function. Nori is rich in protein. Soy beans are well known but 2 sheets of Nori contain equivalent protein to 15g of boiled soybeans. Also above mentioned taurine supports your liver. Nori snack recipes are highly recommended with your wine/ beer.
10. Umami is origin of Japanese cuisine
Nori contains 3 Umami, glutamic acid (“Umami” flavor mainly contained in kelp), inosine acid (also “Umami” flavor contained in dried bonito flakes), and guanylic acid (another “Umami” flavor contained in shiitake mushroom broth). It is said that there is no other natural food contains all these 3 Umami but Nori. Nori is the product of natural resources of Japanese sea and sun, and composes core of Japanese cuisine. It explains why “Onigiri”, as simple as rice with Nori is delicious.
References: “The history of Nori“, “Nori unique trivial dictionary”
