Book 15. Would it be profitable to produce fruit sugar by powdering dried fruit?

Hello. I'm Ten Watanabe. You're welcome.

The theme this time is vending machines and fruit sugar. I'd like to introduce my fierce battle with vending machines. Vending machines. Hmm. Vending machines. I end up buying a lot of them. 100 yen carbonated drinks are a lot, but I end up buying 10 bottles. In just one day. I'm definitely not fat.

I'm a little worried about my weight these days. However, I'm worried that if I continue this lifestyle, I'll end up getting fat. It's okay. While I'm young, at least. I have the money to buy things, but vending machines are very tempting. Seriously.

I can see that they have a wide selection of juices and coffees. But when there's a vending machine, I can't help but reach for it. I want to drink something.

I've recently realized that if you go to the supermarket, you can get juice for about half the price. Vending machines are convenient, so you end up buying juice all the time, but at the supermarket, it's inconvenient to go there multiple times a day, so you can buy a lot in one go. It's a sense of guilt.

Speaking of juice, I also like fruit juice, but I am mindful of the sugar content. I try to drink as much water as possible. Speaking of fruit, I think fruit sugar is excellent. If you go to a shopping store, like a supermarket, you'll find dried fruit.

I want to reduce my sugar intake, so I thought I could make money by powdering dried fruit to make fruit sugar. It's called fructose, a natural sugar found in fruits and honey. I dried it and powdered it.

But I think that fruit sugar doesn't depend on insulin, so even diabetics should be able to eat it. I think it would be good if fruit sugar became more widespread. I think it would be good to grow and produce fruits cheaply in warm tropical countries like Africa and ASEAN. But that's just my opinion.

Fruit is grown in many countries, so I think it would be good to use fruit sugar in the juices sold in vending machines. By the way, regular white sugar is glucose (white sugar), which requires insulin. It is the nemesis of diabetes patients. Glucose, the nemesis.

Speaking of vending machines, they're just lumps of glucose. They're just lumps. The more you buy, the more sugar you ingest. I think vending machine juices need to be made with both fructose and glucose.

Fruit is very expensive here in Japan where I live. Of course, the quality is good, but if you want to buy fruit, it will easily cost you 1,000 to 2,000 yen. However, if you produce it in a tropical country where prices are low, it will be cheaper.

I also look at mangoes on online shops, and I see that brand-name products cost around 4,000 yen. That's expensive. Tropical mangoes can be bought for 200 to 300 yen. I think that even if you use tropical mangoes as an ingredient, you can still produce fruit sugar cheaply.

It's clear that fruit sugar can also be purchased cheaply if it's mass-produced in tropical countries and imported at low cost. I'd love to see this introduced to juice in vending machines as well. However, I think the battle with vending machines is still on, so please keep an eye on us. Thank you.

That's all. Thank you for your growth. This was Watanabe Ten.