“Miso”, essential to the Japanese diet, and various miso products with different tastes are made in a number of regions throughout Japan.Miso is classified into 3 different types of raw ingredients: “Rice Miso”, “Wheat Miso” and “Bean Miso”.
“Shinshu Miso” produced by Hikari Miso is a typical rice miso.Rice, soybeans and salt are the ingredients used for miso, and microorganisms including Koji bacteria work to produce miso through fermentation and aging.Here you can see the processes for making miso.