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Umamo is the algae of the wise. DHA you eat for the taste.

The Umamo Series, Made with Care

Umamo is a tiny seaweed that contains 13× the DHA of mackerel, DHA that is good for the mind as well. The flavor is much like "bottarga (karasumi)."
Because it tastes good, it is a new DHA habit you can keep up every day.

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What is Umamo?

Umamo is an “alga” with exceptionally rich umami.
Umamo's formal name is Aurantiochytrium. It is a minute seaweed, a kind of what is commonly called “algae.”
It normally lives in places such as the underside of mangrove leaves that have fallen onto the water, growing as it absorbs the nutrients that drift past.

We are the first in the world to succeed in growing this alga so that it is “good to eat.”
The natural ingredient with the highest umami-compound content is, for now, Rausu kombu.
The alga we have grown, however, contains more than 1.5× as much umami compound.

Hence, Umamo. It is a new Okinawan ingredient marked by a rich umami like that of bottarga (karasumi).

Why algae?

We do not simply want to make delicious algae.
We are not a company that simply makes delicious algae.
Our goal is to carry dwindling fish populations into the future.

Do you know what farmed fish eat as they grow?
In fact, farmed fish grow by eating wild fish.
DHA is essential for fish to grow, and wild fish are what can supply that DHA cheaply and steadily.

That is why farmed fish grow by eating wild fish.
Those wild fish are now disappearing from the waters around Japan.