Helping to Extend People’s Healthy Life Expectancy
“Healthy life expectancy” is a concept developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2000, and refers to the years in which a person can lead an independent life without the need for nursing care. The smaller the gap between average life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, the longer a person can live independently. Amid Japan’s “super-aging society” and focused on the era when people regularly live to 100 years old, Mitsubishi Corporation Life Sciences Limited hopes to help people around the world live life to the fullest in their older years by improving their health and quality of life (QOL). We are developing health and beauty ingredients, offering healthy foods, developing nursing care food ingredients, and more.
Development of Health and Beauty Materials
For many years, we have been researching health and cosmetic ingredients derived from yeast. Among these ingredients, nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) is attracting worldwide attention as an ingredient that supports youthfulness. Using highly-nutritious torula yeast as the starter material, we have realized a NMN manufacturing process that combines high purity (*1) with mass production. Our NMN is sold as a raw material for supplements.
- NMN purity (anhydrous) of 99.0% or higher. For supplements, other raw ingredients such as inactive ingredients are also included.
Solving Food-Related Issues to Help People Maintain Good Health
We are working to solve a variety of food-related issues to contribute to people’s health. We focus on suggesting applications using our seasonings and food ingredients to improve the taste and healthiness of foods produced and served by our customers, such as processed food manufacturers, convenience stores, and restaurants.
For example, to address issues such as insufficient flavor and reduced shelf-life caused by “low-salt” foods, we propose optimal solutions in response to customer needs, such as considering applications that improve taste and functionality using seasonings for low-salt foods, yeast extracts, and shelf-life enhancers.
In addition to our low-salt solutions, we also offer a variety of other solutions that help improve people’s health, such as reduced sugar, reduced fat, reduced calories, and enhanced protein solutions.
Examples of our offerings for low-salt food products
Medical and Nursing Care Foods
People’s ability to chew and swallow deteriorates with age, which increases the risk of aspiration due to trouble swallowing. Moreover, as swallowing function declines and people become unable to consume sufficient food, it becomes necessary to address nutritional issues (dehydration, low nutrition, etc.). We develop and sell thickening agents, gelling agents, and nutrition-enhancing ingredients for nursing care food so that seniors can eat with ease and comfort.
