Yakult Factory Excursion
I’m really glad our composite year 11 and 12 Japanese class went to the Yakult Factory. Surprisingly, it’s the only manufacturer that produces Yakult for all of Australia and even distributes it to New Zealand!
We learnt a lot about the business, product, and process behind it all, which intrigued me more than expected. While it held a great standard of professionalism, the factory was also really cute!
Yakult means ‘yogurt like’, deriving from now-unspoken Esperanto language, created and named by scientist Minoru Shirota. Which, Shirota was a scientist who advocated his studies towards improving gut health, and developed Yakult by discovering the Lacticaseibacillus paracasei Shirota (LcS) strain bacteria. It’s a probiotic bacteria great for your gut!
Inside each bottle contains 6.5 billion live LcS bacteria, which sounds shocking but is perfectly the right daily dosage for adults and children. They showed us the different Yakult products available across the world in different flavours, sizes, and packaging! They’re currently testing cardboard packaging in countries like Denmark and Germany, while there are also Yakult flavours like grape, orange, and green apple sold in Singapore. We chose between trying an original bottle or the LIGHT version, which has 40% reduced calories and sugar content from using an alternative natural sweetener, stevia! After everything, we were even luckier to enjoy the evening having lunch at a local beach. The weather was so nice, being sunny and warm while the beach was quiet and gorgeously blue. It was an extremely exciting and enjoyable day. Thanks to Sensei and Ms Tuckerman for accompanying and appreciating the day with us!
Annie 11F