Marriage of sake and chocolate
The fruity scent of Junmai Daiginjo Sake covers the sweetness of white chocolate, and a piece of chocolate takes you to another dimension. This item is a sweet only for adults who know high-class sake.
There are two types of products in sake lees chocolate.
・ White chocolate containing 15 % of sake lees
・ White chocolate containing 30 % sake lees
Please choose according to your taste of sake.
Japan is the home of sake, having been made there for 2600 years. Fermented rice is pressed to extract raw sake, and the solid part remaining is the lees (kasu). Lees are made into a drink (amazake) or used as an ingredient in preparing foods.
The lees retain the taste of sake, bringing an umami flavor to food. They also contain healthful fiber, protein, and vitamins.
Bel-Air is offering an energy bar of sake lees combined with white chocolate. The lees provide the nutrition of a fermented food, and the white chocolate lends the richness of cocoa solids and a dairy ascendancy that highlights the umami flavor.
Nutrition facts for Japanese sake lees:
Ingredients for Japanese sake lees
≪Per 100g of Japanese sake lees≫
Calories 215 Kcal
Protein 14.9g
Carbohydrate 23.8g
Dietary fiber 5.2g
Alcohol 8.20%
Vitamin B1 0.03mg
Vitamin B2 0.26mg
Niacin 2mg
Vitamin B6 0.94mg
Folic acid 170 μg
Pantetonic acid 0.48mg
(Source: Standard Tables of Food Composition in Japan 2022, Ishiyaku
Publications)
About sake
Sake is roughly divided into five ranks.
| Daiginjo | Sake that thoroughly pursues a fruity aroma |
| Ginjo | Sake with a fruity aroma and a refreshing taste |
| Special book brewing | Japanese sake used as an apéritif with a refreshing taste |
| Honjou | Sake with a refreshing taste that can be drunk with food |
| Ordinary | sakeSake that has excellent cost performance and is easy to drink |
And Junmai Daiginjo Sake is a Daiginjo sake made only with rice without adding brewed alcohol.
This is the highest ranked sake state of art product.
Can you see the faint fruity aroma of sake aroma chocolate?
Now, start eating sake aroma chocolate for sake from today.
What is sake lees?
When you add koji to sake rice and ferment it, you can make raw sake called “moromi”.
When the “moromi” is filtered with a cloth filter, it is separated into sake and sake lees.
Proteins, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins, organic acids, minerals, peptides, amino acids, etc. contained in sake rice remain in sake lees.
Proteins, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins, organic acids, minerals, peptides, amino acids, etc. contained in sake rice remain in sake lees.
Therefore, sake lees are the best fermented foods with many nutrients.
Eating sake lees has the same effect as taking many types of supplements.
