Science class meets sponge cake in one Japanese confectioner's new treat, a cake packed full of a one-celled organism called euglena that is said to contain a wide range of healthful minerals and vitamins.
The unusual variation of kasutera, a brick-sized Japanese sponge cake thought to have originated with the Portuguese missionaries who were the country's first recorded foreign visitors, hopes to take advantage of increasing health consciousness in Japan.
"The euglena are said to contain some 59 different nutrients," said a spokesman at Soke Kutsuwado, the confectioner in Takamatsu, western Japan, that developed the cake with Euglena Co, a Tokyo firm that sells a wide range of products containing euglena including cosmetics and nutritional supplements.
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