The Suntory Group offers a variety of products and services that help customers to lead lives that are healthier and richer.
Contributing to Health
Suntory is working broadly to help our customers lead healthier and richer lives by offering products and services matched to their needs and preferences, ever mindful of their health.
We develop food for specified health uses (FOSHU) and health foods bearing in mind that these products and services with scientifically demonstrated effects and safety are meant to contribute to people staying healthy. Accordingly, we have been working to verify through up-to-date scientific means and clarify using established technologies the usefulness of the natural effects of foods that humans have long consumed.
The basis for the Suntory Group's philosophy of "In Harmony with People and Nature" lies in the belief that "Wellness Life" — a life that is healthy, beautiful, and spiritually rich— is supported by the fact that human beings draw on their inherent ability to stay healthy as they live in harmony with nature and take advantage of nature's powers.
Sales of Food for Specified Health Uses
- Kuro Oolong Tea OTPP and Goma Mugicha
We released Kuro Oolong Tea OTPP in 2006, after applying research showing that the polymerized polyphenols peculiar to oolong tea have a potent ability to inhibit fat absorption.
In 2007, we released Goma Mugicha, a sesame barley tea suitable for people with high blood pressure that contains sesame peptides extracted from sesame seeds.
Unraveling the Function of Sesamin
- Sesamin E-Plus
Taking on the challenge of finding the scientific basis for why sesame is good for our health, we successfully determined the workings of sesamin, a microscopic component of sesame. We brought it to market in 1993 in the form of our first health food product. In 2003, we released Sesamin E-Plus, which was even more effective due to the combination of vitamin E and tocotrienol.
Program for Creating New Value
Suntory's Institute for Health Care Science is at the center of our research and development projects related to foods for specified health uses and health foods. Its mission includes searching for materials that will contribute to health, scientifically demonstrating their beneficial properties, and delivering high-quality, safe, and reliable products that can help even just one person to lead a bright, healthy, and richer life. Furthermore, our specialized research divisions such as the Safety Science Institute and our Frontiers of Value Centers (the Institute for Microbial Science, the Institute for Plant Science, and the Institute for Water Science) apply their distinctive fields of expertise and unique technologies to work together horizontally across the Group with the research and development divisions at each of our business enterprises.
Announcing Research Results
The research and development divisions in the Suntory Group collaborate on research with Japanese and overseas universities as well as external research organizations. Their results are released to the world at large through presentations at academic conferences and in scholarly publications.
Contributing to Healthy and Comfortable Living: Tipness Ltd.
- Pursuing programs that contribute to human health
Tipness Ltd. is responding to the growing interest in health among people of every generation by offering up-to-date training gyms and a full line of studio conditioning programs that help with everything from fat burning to conditioning and dance programs. The company also operates Tipness Kids, a fitness school brand for children, and the Tipness e-Method health and exercise support service for companies.
Dedicated to Safety and Reliability: Suntory Wellness Ltd.
Suntory Wellness Ltd. obtains the ingredients for its products from around the world. It employs a traceability system that can determine exactly which materials are being used from which producing region, at which plant a product was made, and when. It enables us to check and control quality carefully at every step of the way, from the procurement of ingredients and manufacturing in plants to the shipping and delivery of products.
