Reduced coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a patented supplement becoming popular among wealthy Chinese travelers. The new luxury chocolate was made with the supplement for overseas visitors.
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A healthcare consulting firm, MediThink Inc. (Tokyo, CEO: Daisuke Hachimura), has announced to launch the new series of brand, Kinmusuhi (きんむすひ™), for overseas travelers through products made with reduced CoQ10 by Japan’s best artisans. It is a part of the Genki Kangen Project (vitality restoration project), managed by MediThink, that goal is to revitalize people physically and psychologically.
Genki Kangen Project: https://genkikangen.com/
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◎Only available at Japan Duty Free GINZA located on the 8th floor of Ginza Mitsukoshi
◎Buy before you leave Japan for the Golden Week vacation
◎Authentic food made by Japan’s best artisans collaborates with functional ingredient
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Kinmusuhi is named after the three main gods in Japan’s oldest historical record to express the mentality of “monozukuri (craftmanship)” that has been handed down for generations in Japanese manufacturing industry.
The first product is “Premium Chocolate Reduced CoQ10 Tablet” made by Shunsuke Saegusa, a chocolatier of Chocolatier Palet D’Or. It will be sold at Japan Duty Free GINZA (8th floor in Ginza Mitsukoshi). It is a chocolate bar version of “Chocolate GH Premium too tasty for the body,” which has been popular as a gift in Chocolatier Palet D’Or, and as it has a long shelf life, it is perfect for overseas visitors who are looking for a gift for friends or family.
The package was designed by a creative director Manabu Sakamoto, who made a logo for PlayStation at Sony.
Japanese travelers can buy this luxury gift too, by showing an overseas plane ticket
More than 750,000 people visited Japan from China in January 2019 (preliminary figures by JNTO). Many of them shop in Japan, seeking for the quality of “Made in Japan”. At the same time, as the President Xi Jinping announced the government’s new agenda “Healthy China,” Chinese people are more interested in health maintenance.
Meanwhile, they started a trial sale of reduced CoQ10 supplement at Japan Duty Free GINZA from September 2017, and people became interested in the supplement more than expected. Therefore, they decided to make luxury products that contain the supplement as an ingredient. And as their first product, they asked the chocolatier Shunsuke Saegusa to make a chocolate bar that has a longer shelf life so that overseas visitors can keep it for days. When a chocolate contains more than 70% of cacao, it is considered to have a health effect. Saegusa used 75% of cacao from San Juan Estate, Gran Couva Trinidad in Trinidad and Tobago. According to Saegusa, their cacao is the best in the world. A story about his passion towards this cacao was introduced in a Japanese TV show the Professional on NHK.
Japanese people can also buy the product if they have an overseas plane ticket. It is worth visiting the store and buying before a trip abroad.
*Reduced CoQ10 is an ingredient frequently used in functional food. It has efficacies against temporary fatigue caused by daily life.
■About the product
Name: Premium Chocolate Reduced CoQ10
Price: 3,300 JPY / bar
Weight: 70g *100mg of CoQ10 (reduced) is contained per 2 tablets
On sale: March 5, 2019
https://ubiquinol-takumi.tokyo
■About Genki Kangen Project
“Revitalize yourself and your loved ones.”
This project started in 2015 to support people’s physical and psychological health through functional foods and ingredients such as reduced CoQ10 (ubiquinol).
■Chocolatier Palet D’Or
A chocolate shop established by Shunsuke Saegusa, one of the best Japanese chocolatiers, in 2014. Every process of making chocolate, from selecting cacao beans, roasting them, and making them into chocolates, is done at the shop. Their goal is to hand down possibilities that chocolates hold.
■MediThink Inc.
Based on the concept “Meditainment”, entertainment is the key for sustainable health management, the company’s mission is to make a society that promotes health spontaneously and sustainably in a positive and fun way. As one of their works, they proposed a point providing system and discount system on insurance based on a customer’s health activities. The company was chosen as ICT Urban Development Promotion Business of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as a part of Kashiwa-no-ha Smart City Project (Kashiwa-shi, Chiba) for two years in low in 2012 and 2013. After that, wearable computer has become popular worldwide, and the company has expanded their business: developing a sleep activity monitor, SAT-1, for researchers at National Research and Development Agency, which was a launch customer; consulting healthcare business for major companies; and producing preventive medicine business.
