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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 May, please eat Japanese food using this ingredient. You can eat delicious food
May vegetables and fruits
Onion | Potato | Burdock |
Chinese yam | Carrot | garlic |
bamboo shoot | Bracken | Royal fern |
Butterbur | Japanese udo salad | Aralia Sprout |
Japanese wormwood | Nobiru | Ostrich fern |
water shield | asparagus | Oriental pickling melon |
Water cress | Lettuce | Cabbage |
cucumbera | Tomato | Horseradish |
Bok Choy | white radish sprouts | japanese squash |
bean sprouts | celery | Edible flower |
Ice plant | Japanese basil | Japanese ginger |
Janese-honeywort | Aster | Ashitaba |
Japanese pepper | coriander | Parsley |
Salsola komarovii | pea sprouts | Almond |
snow pea | broad bean | Green pea |
Hyacinth bean | Yuzu flower | Mushroom |
Shiitake | Eringi Mushroom | Plum |
Sudachi | melon | Goumi |
cherry | loquat | strawberry |
Oranges | Sanbokan | Citrus natsudaidai |
Lychee | pineapple | grapefruit |
Acerola | ||

Seafood of May
Freshwater shrimp | Sweet shrimp | Mantis shrimp |
Bigfin reef squid | Swordtip squid | Firefly squid |
sakura shrimp | Hanasaki-crab | Hair crab |
green-ling | Chicken grunt | Spanish mackerel |
sole | White croaker | bonito |
Flying fish | Crimson sea bream | Sea bream |
Pacific rudderfish | Horse mackerel | Black rockfish |
Sea bass | alfonsino | Banded blue sprat |
Spotnape ponyfish | Trevally | Pike conger |
Flatfish | Sand borer | Flathead |
Big-eyed flathead | Conger eel | Japanese sand lance |
Devil stinger | eel | Herring |
salmon | Cherry salmon | rainbow trout |
sweetfis | Yamame trout | Char |
Land-locked trout | Trough shell | Sea squirt |
sea urchin | Tokobushi abalone | turban shell |
Scallop | Japanese Babylon | Japanese egg cockle |
Hard clam | ||
Tosaka-nori | Wakame | 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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