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What's Wasanbon?
This sugar has been traditionally made since the Edo period in Kagawa Prefecture, Tokushima Prefecture, and elsewhere in Japan.
Using a traditional variety of sugar cane grown at the foot of the Asan Mountains as its raw materials, Wasanbon has a distinctive taste, mellow and sweet due to the removal of some off-flavors from brown sugar.It is pale yellow in appearance, and is characterized by fine particles that melt in the mouth.As a sugar with moderate sweetness and a great aftertaste, it is used as a high-grade ingredient in Japanese sweets.
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What is key in producing high-quality Wasanbon sugar is the raw material, sugarcane.
A traditional variety called chikutoh, this sugarcane is characterized by its small, thin cane.
As the harvest volume is small, the Wasanbon produced from it is a very rare item.
The chikutoh seedlings that we have inherited from generations past are cultivated in our own fields and at contract farms in Tokushima Prefecture.