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The seasonal ingredients in Japan are listed.
It is important to know seasonal ingredients to enjoy Japanese food.
When you come to Japan in August, please eat Japanese food using this ingredient. You can eat delicious food
August vegetables and fruits
Japanese white radish | scallion | Taro |
Lotus root | ginger | white radish sprouts |
bean sprouts | Edible flower | Ice plant |
Japanese ginger | tomato | Japanese basil |
Eggplant | egg plant black beauty | Japanese Squash |
Cabbage | water spinach | Jew’s mallow |
Swiss chard | basil | Malabar spinach |
Stem of a taro | okra | cucumbera |
wax gourd | Oriental pickling melon | Dried gourd shavings |
bitter melon | Karimori melon | water shield |
New zealand spinach | Matsutake | string beans |
Almond | Hyacinth bean | green soybeans |
Red pepper | sweetcorn | Paprika |
sweet pepper | Eringi Mushroom | Jew’s‐ear |
Sweet Green Pepper | Sudachi | Blue Yuzu |
Kabosu | mint | |
plum | watermelon | melon |
Oriental melon | grapes | fig |
japanese pear | Oranges | |
banana | blueberry | pineapple |
peach | mango | prune |
Guava | Acerola |

Seafood of August
Spiny lobster | Kuruma prawn | Freshwater shrimp |
Swordtip squid | Japanese common squid | Golden cuttlefish |
octopus | Hair crab | Hanasaki-crab |
Sea bream | Crimson sea bream | Pacific rudderfish |
Gizzard shad | Yellowfin tuna | Silver pomfret |
Sea bass | Sand borer | Conger eel |
Chicken grunt | sole | green-ling |
Mackerel | greater amberjack | Goldstriped amberjack |
bonito | Amberjack | young yellowtail |
Atka mackerel | largehead hairtail | Barracuda |
Thread-sail filefish | Pacific saury | Flathead |
Big-eyed flathead | stingray | Flatfish |
Flying fish | Sardine | Horse mackerel |
Trevally | salmon | eel |
rainbow trout | sweetfish | Loach |
Land-locked trout | Yamame trout | Char |
hinese softshell turtle | Shijimi Clams | abalone |
Tokobushi abalone | turban shell | sea urchin |
Sea squirt | Oyster | Korean mussel |
Kelp | ||
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