Bunmeido's sports-friendly castella "V! Castella" has been announced on the official website. It will be on sale at the online shop from April. Details will be announced again in March.

According to Bunmeido, some professional athletes eat castella during training and before and after a match, and because castella is digestible and can consume energy in a short time, it can absorb nutrients without straining the body. Is the reason.

Therefore, Castella was developed for people who are familiar with sports every day and who think and control their own body. The raw materials are a simple combination of 5 types of eggs, sugar, flour, starch syrup, and honey, just like castella, and no additives for fortification are used. However, it is a bar type that is easy to carry and eat with a different manufacturing method than before. The package is designed based on the three elements of "coolness", "simplicity" and "traditional".

Calories are about 150 kcal per bottle. It has a tightly packed and chewy texture, is as digestible as castella, and is characterized by the ability to ingest high-quality egg protein. For the purpose of verifying the usefulness of Castella for sports, research and joint research targeting athletes are being conducted at the university together with Associate Professor Asami of the University of Tsukuba Exercise Nutrition Laboratory.

The name V! Castella says, "Eating castella will give you vitality and Victory to the goals you set. For that reason, castella will change into a shape that is easy to replenish. ) Must be made. "