MannanLife

MannanLife
Industry	food processing
Founded	September 1964
Headquarters	Tomioka, Gunma, Japan
Products	Konnyaku jelly
Number of employees	144 (as of 1 April 2020)
Website	http://www.mannanlife.co.jp/

Headquarters of MannanLife in Tomioka

Ume-flavoured "Konnyaku Batake" made by MannanLife

MannanLife Co., Ltd. (株式会社マンナンライフ, Kabushiki Gaisha Mannan Raifu) is a company in Japan that sells "Konnyaku Batake" fruit-flavoured konnyaku jelly. MannanLife holds a 60 to 70 percent share of the konnyaku jelly market in Japan.^[2]

Sales of "Konnyaku Batake" were suspended from 8 October 2008 after it was reported that 17 children and elderly people in Japan had choked to death on konnyaku jelly since 1995.^[2] In 2009 they released the product Lala Crush.^[1]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Corporate Overview". MannanLife Co., Ltd. Retrieved 27 May 2020. (in Japanese)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Article at the Japan Times, "Food maker pulls 'konnyaku' sweets", 9 October 2008. Retrieved on 13 October 2008.

External links[]

MannanLife website (in Japanese)

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[overview-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c "Corporate Overview". MannanLife Co., Ltd. Retrieved 27 May 2020. (in Japanese)

[jt20081009-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Article at the Japan Times, "Food maker pulls 'konnyaku' sweets", 9 October 2008. Retrieved on 13 October 2008.

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