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The Best of Black Garlic, Fruit Garlic.

Fruit Garlic is a brand-new generation of black garlic.

Fruit Garlic is the best black garlic in the world. Black garlic is a fermented food and has wide varieties in qualities much like wines. Taste various kinds of black garlic and feel the difference yourself.

We promise that Fruit Garlic, selected by the world’s top chefs, is the garlic that will most stimulate your creativity in the kitchen.

How Fruit Garlic is produced?

The reason why Fruit Garlic is completely different from other black garlic lies in the technology and procedure used in the production process.

We produce all of the raw garlic in our own five-hectare fields in Kyoto with a minimum use of chemicals. Under the concept of starting the fermentation process in the field, we enhance the product quality by creating a special environment in our garlic field.

In the fermentation process, we adopt a brand-new concept. Based upon the idea that human beings are taking in not only nutrition but also some sorts of information or energy known as “Qi 氣” through eating, we ferment all of our garlic in our own facility supported by our own special technology. The technology established in Fruit Garlic production is now being applied to other areas.

How you can use Fruit Garlic.

Fruit Garlic is made from garlic but has a completely different taste from garlic thanks to the advanced fermentation technology. It tastes sweet and sour much like dry fruit without the typical smell of garlic.

Although you can enjoy Fruit Garlic by just peeling and eating it as it is, you can also utilize it as an ingredient or condiment in various types of cooking. It is very good with cheese and great with ice cream. Putting a small amount of Fruit Garlic to any kind of sauces or dressings, you will experience unprecedented added Umami. Fruit Garlic, completely different from other black garlic, is sure to stimulate your creativity and will play an active role in your cooking in the near future.

Garlic is good for health, so is fermented food. Because Fruit Garlic is also fermented, it is especially good for you. Compared to raw garlic, Fruit Garlic has 72.8 times more free-radical scavenging power.

Being produced with no additives, Fruit Garlic is attracting worldwide attention as a healthy food to enhance our natural healing capacity. Clinical tests are now underway at Meiji University of Integrative Medicines in Japan for people suffer from sensitivity to cold temperatures.