A trip to Yakult Factory

It was Monday morning that we embarked our journey to Yakult Factory in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan. I love everything about Japan, thus I am very excited to visit this factory since Yakult was originated from Japan. For me, it was a bless that Minoru Shirota found Lactobacillus casei in 1930 and turn it into delicious healthy drink. Yummy! As soon as we arrived the factory, we were led to a lecture room to hear a lecture about Yakult. A lot of information that I  gathered from the lecture. Probiotics are good bacteria and there are some requirements to be it such as need to reach the intestine alive, help in digestion and help in immune system. So, in Yakult drink, it has L. casei. The word lacto means milk, bacillus is the shape of bacteria and casei is cheese. L. casei are very special because they has high resistance to bile juice and gastric juice means it do not get affected by acidity or alkalinity. Because of that, they can reach our intestine alive without being interrupted. In Yakult, they add sugar as in glucose or fructose to act as source of energy for L. casei. The bacteria will undergo fermentation and they produce lactic acid. Consequently, lactic acid has advantages for human such as can improve gut metabolism and decrease harmful bacteria. In conclusion, L. casei gives us great advantage as in they show the video about a kid that has short intestine problem where his intestine is cut into 60cm and experience diarrhea about 12 times a day. But when he drinks Yakult, his diarrhea is decreased to four times only.

After about 2 hours, we finished our tour. We got to see the giant machine to store the drink and so on. Then, photo session! Took a picture with classmates as a memory with beautiful sakura flower. The best thing is we got to buy Yakult at special price! Yeah, of course I do buy a dozen. Really enjoy this trip and hope we can have this kind of trip again. Bye, thank you.

With love,
Izzah