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Contributing to Healthy Diets
Our commitment to health
Personalized health for each and every individual.
Health needs vary according to age, life stage, and many other factors.
—We want to enjoy delicious foods and take plenty of exercise every day.
—We want our children to grow up healthy.
—We want to enjoy good mental and physical health with each passing year.
The Nisshin Seifun Group is committed to offering the right health products to meet the needs of every individual.
We will continue to use our knowledge of wheat and our wheat processing technologies to create a wide range of new products and services to support good health and fitness in various facets of day-to-day life, whether enjoying home cooking, prepared foods, or restaurant meals.
Corresponding sustainability priorities
| sustainability priority | Priority theme | Approaches and targets |
|---|---|---|
| Provide safe and healthy food and responsible consumer communication | Contribution to healthy diets | Research and develop health functions of food ingredients, primarily focused on wheat, such as its effects to prevent metabolic syndrome and to promote brain functions and anti-aging |
Contributing to health
Health-friendly products
As a leader in the wheat flour industry, the Nisshin Seifun Group is continually exploring the potential of wheat. We prioritize research focusing on whole grain flour, wheat bran, and other products with health benefits, as well as the creation of new products and services that help consumers to enjoy good health.
Using high-fiber wheat to produce wheat flours containing a variety of fermented dietary fiber
Amuleia high-fiber wheat flour that contains various types of fermented dietary fiber, including resistant starch, arabinoxylan, and fructan, in abundance. It won the top prize in the 2024 Wellness Food Award, as well as a gold award in the Food Ingredients Category. We will continue to advance a wide range of research and development with the intent of helping people to improve fermented dietary fiber intake in their daily diet.
Also, in March 2025, we had a paper on food with functional claims published in the journal Bioscience, Biotechnology, and Biochemistry. We are working with our partners in the food manufacturing industry to contribute to good health for all through food by creating an environment in which consumers can enjoy products made with Amuleia flour on a daily basis.
| Commercial use |
 Amuleia |
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For details, please visit the following website.
Amuleia: https://www.nisshin.com/company/stories/08.html (Japanese)
Products based on healthy wheat-derived ingredients (wholegrain flour, bran)
Bran is the outer layer of wheat, which makes up about 15% of the total weight of wheat grains. It is rich in dietary fiber. Developed under the leadership of Nisshin Flour Milling Inc., SF Bran is a wheat bran product manufactured using an original process developed by the Nisshin Seifun Group. It can be used as an ingredient for food with functional claims containing wheat-derived arabinoxylan, a type of fermented dietary fiber. We also sell whole wheat flours containing abundant dietary fiber and minerals, including Graham Flour, Graham Bread Flour, Whole Wheat Flour D, and the Super Fine Series, as well as Kitanomaruko, a fortified whole wheat flour made entirely from wheat grown in Hokkaido.
| Commercial use |
 SF Bran  Graham Flour  Graham Bread Flour  Whole Wheat Flour D  Super Fine Series  Kitanomaruko |
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For details, please visit the following website.
SF Bran: https://www.nisshin.com/company/stories/06.html (Japanese)
Products to prevent excess nutrition (low-carbohydrate, low-sugar, reduced-salt products)
In recent years, excessive consumption of carbohydrates, sugar, salt, and other nutrients is leading to serious lifestyle-related health issues, such as obesity. The Nisshin Seifun Group is continually launching high-value-added products that combine delicious flavors with health benefits, such as low levels of carbohydrates and sugar, and reduced salt. Nisshin Flour Milling Inc. and Nisshin Seifun Welna Inc. both supply mixed flour products with reduced carbohydrate, sugar and salt levels, while Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd. sells low-sugar flour paste and fermented flavor liquids in which umami and sour flavors and aromas are used to disguise the reduced salt level.
| Low-carbohydrate, low-sugar products | Reduced-salt products | |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial use |
 M-209 (premixes for noodles with reduced carbohydrates and sugar)  Como Dolce Series (flour pastes formulated to provide delicious tastes with reduced sugar) |
 Gokuuma Plus (a fermented flavor liquid with enhanced mid-taste and after-taste depth and body) |
| Household use |  Nisshin Hotcake Mix Low-carbohydrate Type  Nisshin Okonomiyaki Pancake Flour Low-carbohydrate Type |
 Karaage Mix Reduced Salt Type |
Foods for specified health uses/Foods with functional claims
Nisshin Pharma Inc. supplies foods for specified health uses and foods with functional claims as easier and simpler sources of nutrition for consumers seeking to achieve good health through their diet.
| Foods for specified health uses | Foods with functional claims | |
|---|---|---|
| Household use |
 Gluco Design |
 Bificolon S |
For details, please visit the following websites:
Gluco Design: https://www.nisshin-pharma.com/livlon/gluco-soup/ (Japanese)
Bificolon S: https://www.nisshin-pharma.com/bificolon/ (Japanese)
Other products
The Nisshin Seifun Group offers a wide range of other products to meet diverse dietary needs, including nutritional supplements and plant-based protein products. Nisshin Seifun Welna Inc. is responding to growing health awareness, and the resulting awareness of the need to consume more protein, by offering a high-protein version of its FineFast Ma･Ma Quick Boil Spaghetti. Nisshin Pharma Inc. offers Power Supply NMN, a supplement containing nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN)*. NMN has attracted intense interest following the publication of a report indicating a linkage to longevity genes. In addition, Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd. has launched a plant-based food series containing no animal-derived ingredients for consumers wishing to combine healthy lifestyles with enjoyment of delicious foods.
- * Nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN): An essential ingredient that releases the energy required for life processes within the body
| Commercial use |
 Mineral Yeast Series Mineral levels in these powdered yeast have been dramatically enhanced. It is produced by culturing baker’s yeast using special technology.  Calmag S An ingredient for use in calcium and magnesium supplement foods  Plant-based Food Series All products in this series are vegan. They contain no animal-derived ingredients. |
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| Household use |
 FineFast Ma･Ma Quick Boil Spaghetti 1.6mm (high-protein version)  Nisshin Protein Hotcake Mix  Other health foods • Power Supply Series • Water Soluble Q10 |
Group-wide health initiatives
Through its wide-ranging activities, the Nisshin Seifun Group is contributing to health maintenance and improvement and the extension of healthy longevity.
Creating and expanding markets for wholegrain flour and wheat bran
Wholegrain flour is made by grinding entire wheat grains, while bran is produced from the outer layers of wheat grains. Both are rich in dietary fiber, which is regarded as the sixth nutritional element. The Nisshin Seifun Group is engaged in research and development, product development, and communication activities on a group-wide basis with the aim of creating and expanding a market for wholegrain flour and bran, as well as high- fiber wheat flour that contains plenty of dietary fiber, which is usually found in the bran, from the endosperm as well.
- Research and development: Investigation of the health benefits of wheat bran and high-fiber wheat flour, development of applications that can be used in foods with functional claims
- Product development: Introduction of foods with functional claims containing wheat bran and high-fiber wheat flour produced using the Nisshin Seifun Group’s original manufacturing methods
- Communication activities: Seminars about dietary fiber
