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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 December, please eat Japanese food using this ingredient. You can eat delicious food
December vegetables and fruits
Japanese white radish | Burdock | Celebes | |
Turnip | Taro | Yatsugashira | |
Lotus root | Sweet potato | Jerusalem artichoke | |
yamato yam | Chinese yam | Japanese yam | |
Carrot | Kintoki carrot | konnyaku potato | |
white radish sprouts | bean sprouts | celery | |
Edible flower | Ice plant | green onion | |
Nebuka-negi | leek | water chestnut | |
Lily bulb | Chinese cabbage | chicory | |
Cabbage | Brussels sprouts | Spinach | |
Butterbur scape | Garland chrysanthemum | Canola flower | |
Janese-honeywort | Sugukina | Japanese mustard spinach | |
Potherb mustard | variety of wild mustard | Tatsoi | |
Horseradish | Squash | Cauliflower | |
Broccoli | Avocado | Red chicory | |
Enoki mushroom | Eringi Mushroom | Almond | |
Japanese horseradish | Walnut | Red beans | |
Edible chrysanthemum | Yuzu | Bitter orange | |
Lemon | Lime | Iyokan | |
Kumquats | strawberry | Kiwifruit | |
Oranges | Apple | Pear | |
mandarin | |||

Seafood of December
Spiny lobster | Kuruma prawn | Sweet shrimp |
Shiba shrimp | reshwater shrimp | sakura shrimp |
Snow crab | King crab | Hair crab |
Golden cuttlefish | octopus | Swimming crab |
bluefin tuna | Tilefish | Sea bream |
Golden threadfin bream | Kichiji rockfish | alfonsino |
Black sea bream | Japanese parrot fish | Matsubara’s red rockfish |
Willow shiner | Blackthroat seaperch | Banded blue sprat |
sailfin sandfish | Girella | Angler |
Amberjack | Atka mackerel | Mackerel |
Striped marlin | Halfbeak | Silver pomfret |
Sardine | Barracuda | Gizzard shad |
Spanish mackerel | Cod | Rock fishes |
Flatfish | walleye pollock | dolphinfish |
Bigeyed greeneye | Black rockfish | Thread-sail filefish |
Globefish | smooth dogfishes | Sevenband grouper |
Japanese bluefish | Herring | Flatfish |
eel | Conger eel | shishamo smelt |
Mullet | Red gurnard | Japanese pond smelt |
Matsubara’s red rockfish | Catfish | Goby |
Sculpin | Carp | Crucian carp |
Short-neck clam | Keen’s gaper | Sakhalin surf clam |
Ark shell | Scallop | Pen-shell |
abalone | Oyster | Korean mussel |
Japanese bay scallop | Pond snail | Sea cucumber |
Dried seaweed | green laver | |
最短最速!英語学習室【777】英単語 – 食べ物 (野菜・果物)
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