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Meat products made by craftsmen who have a track record of providing them to first class using the traditional German manufacturing method. With the company motto of creating taste buds, we strive to create products that are loved by a wide range of generations.
Ham and sausages handmade only with raw domestic pork. The salt content is moderate, gentle on the body, and the more you chew, the more you feel the taste of the ingredients. Since it is not smoked, even those who do not like smoke can enjoy it.
In cooperation with the sixth industry, local production for local consumption, and universities that incorporate local rice and vegetables, we are creating unique products that only Ikutose can create that deliciously solve local issues through meat products.
Ham and sausages made only from domestic pork and without using any binders. This technology is only possible because of the traditional German manufacturing method. We are committed to selling only products that have been refilled by children.
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Naoyuki Hirayama
After graduating from university, I joined Sanwa Bank (now MUFG Bank), then joined Square Enix, where I was involved in start-up companies in the game industry for many years, and my long-standing hobby of smoking led me to become a German-style ham sausage maker.
Taking the opportunity to acquire the national qualification (food sanitation manager), which is essential in the meat product manufacturing industry, I launched Ikutose with two craftsmen who had deepened their friendship at the restaurant during their apprenticeship.
Based on the German manufacturing method that I learned in my training, I make the most of my delicate taste as a Japan person and work on new product development with unique ideas.
Based on our corporate motto of "creating the future (taste buds)", we are working hard every day to provide products that are loved by a wide range of generations, from children to adults.
We are also working to solve local issues, such as 6th industry products using local rice in collaboration with Tsukuba Mirai City, and upcycled products using unused dried sweet potatoes in collaboration with Ibaraki University.
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We want small children to eat real sausages made with 100% domestic pork. In addition, our hometown of Tsukuba Mirai City is rich in agricultural products such as rice, vegetables, and fruits, but there is no full-fledged meat product manufacturing using the German method, so we launched the brand with the spirit of creating sixth products that aim to improve the added value of local agricultural products.
Tsukuba Mirai City is the place of its founding, and the brand concept is to create taste buds by combining "Mirai", which is also in the name of the municipality, and "taste buds" on the tongue.
In particular, the taste of the food and dishes that we ate when we were young is something that we remember even as adults, and we want our children to have the experience of eating the real thing while they are young.
We are creating sausages made from locally grown rice, participating in a project to solve local issues such as reducing dried sweet potato residues that Ibaraki University is working on, and developing upcycled sausage products.
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Coarsely ground meatloaf is a coarsely ground type of meatloaf made from 100% domestic pork. It is a product based on sausage dough and kneaded with paprika.
It is finished by putting it in a mold and baking it in the oven, so you can enjoy it as it is after thawing, or if you bake it in a frying pan, the fat of the domestic pork will melt and you can enjoy it even more deliciously.
It has a wide variety of culinary uses, such as stir-frying with vegetables without oil, eating with rice, chopping and adding to salads, and stewing with vegetables.
We often receive very positive feedback from customers, such as that even people who do not like the smell of meat were able to eat it because it does not smell of pork at all, that children ate it first and it disappeared in a blink of an eye, that it is very useful because it can be used in various dishes, and that it can be eaten even if you do not like bell peppers and paprika.
The target audience ranges from children to adults. Some children have been eating since they were about 2 years old.
A restaurant in a prestigious hotel in Ibaraki Prefecture. This year, it is also used for osechi cooking. A café with a special concept. Coarsely ground meatloaf is also popular at national events at department stores in Tokyo and Yokohama.
As for the feedback we receive from customers, there is no smell of pork, so even people who don't like the smell of meat can eat it, children ate it first and it disappeared in a blink of an eye, it is very useful because it can be used for various dishes, it can be eaten even if you don't like bell peppers and paprika, and it has a low salt content, so you can eat it. We often receive very favorable feedback.
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