[New Product] Low calorie meal

Sunny Health Co. is to release a low-calorie pouch-packed meal, Feb.1.

MicroDiet is a weight-control program with a 20-year history in Japan, which includes low-calorie shakes and dinner entrees such as soup, pasta, risotto and cereals.

The Daily Menu pouch-pack meal is a set of entrée and soup with a choice of chick pea curry and consommé soup, cream stew and minestrone, “mapo doufu” with Chinese soup, hashed beef with minestrone, Chinese stew and soup, sukiyaki and miso soup, and chicken curry and consommé soup. Calorie intake is only 240 kcal or 460 kcal even consumed with rice or bread.

The servings have big chunky ingredients to help you feel satisfied, and uses recipes based on a herbal diet. Beauty components such as 50mg of hyaluronic acid and 4mg of CoQ10 are also included. Following the release through mail orders and online stores, the Daily Menu will be available at drugstores that carry MicroDiet.

The suggested retail price of the Daily Menu mixed-seven-pack is 5,880 yen, including tax.

For more details, visit MicroDiet’s Japanese Web site at http://microdiet.jp or contact (0120)662-444.

by Minami Iijima staff writer
The article appeard in Jan.29 issue of The Japan Times.