Contribution to solve food and health issues

Approach

Since our founding, the Ajinomoto Group has aspired to fulfill the ambition of our founder to help people live healthier with nutritional, delicious foods that utilize umami, and has been spreading this message across the world. The issues and needs related to food and nutrition in modern society are becoming more diverse and more complex. The Group aims to maximize our impact on nutrition through our businesses. To achieve this aim, we encourage people to eat a nutritionally balanced diet by sharing our expertise of amino acids. In this way, we contribute to the better health and dietary habits of people all over the world.

Specific examples

Undernutrition and overnutrition (customer welfare)
Nutrition for infants, young women, and seniors
Well-being
Regenerative medicine
Preventive medicine

Related opportunities and risks (Opportunity Risk)

Rising health awareness and needs of consumers
Revised eating habits in response to rising health and nutrition issues
Brand trust
Enhancing corporate value
More restrictive health and nutrition regulations (sugar tax, etc.)
Involvement of food and nutrition in predictive prevention
Rising competition and subordination risk in the health and nutrition field

Key initiatives by the Ajinomoto Group

Offering tasty food and amino acid products as well as menus that nourish health and well-being
“Delicious salt reduction” with umami
Sugar reduction, fat reduction
Promoting protein intake
Contributing to disease prevention with “AminoIndex technology”
Introduction of nutrient profiling system
Customized programs to each consumer for improving nutrition (personalized nutrition)