At the Oriental Recipe Cafe (Harajuku, Tokyo), where you can enjoy medicinal dishes in style, the menu "Fresh oranges with homemade chenpi and yogurt juice", "Marugoto oranges Shiratama", and "Omohide oranges with skin" Three items of "Jelly" will be on sale from March 16th.

Is "Mikan" a countermeasure against pollinosis this year?
Is "Mikan" a countermeasure against pollinosis this year?

The three products to be released this time were developed as a "hay fever countermeasure menu" for this year's pollen season, which is said to have "more than double the amount of pollen scattered last year." Since the polyphenol "hesperidine" contained in citrus fruits is said to be effective in suppressing pollinosis, "Wenshu mandarin", which has a high content of this, is used.

Also, since hesperidine is especially abundant in the skin and muscles of citrus fruits, mandarin oranges are mixed together with the skin.

"Fresh tangerine and yogurt juice with homemade chenpi" is a fresh juice that you can enjoy the texture of "chinpi" made by drying and crushing tangerine peel. One mandarin orange with skin, soy milk, apple, honey, and grated ginger are mixed in a blender, and it is made into two layers with yogurt. The price is 650 yen.

Mandarin oranges and yogurt, two layers of fresh juice
Mandarin oranges and yogurt, two layers of fresh juice

"Marugoto Mikan Shiratama" is a combination of "Mikan Shiratama" made by mixing mandarin orange paste with skin and powder, and mandarin orange sauce with yuzu jam. In addition to vanilla ice cream, whipped cream and red bean paste, fresh oranges are also topped. The slightly orange-flavored white balls and the refreshing orange sauce go well with the rich sweet bean paste. The price is 650 yen.

Zenzai-style whole oranges Shiratama
Zenzai-style whole oranges Shiratama

"Omohide mandarin orange jelly with skin" is a mandarin orange jelly made by mixing two oranges in a blender. The inner skin (pericarp) of mandarin oranges, which contains a lot of hesperidine, can be scooped up with a spoon and eaten with jelly. The price is 400 yen.

Maybe some people instinctively shouted "Nostalgic!"
Maybe some people instinctively shouted "Nostalgic!"

* All listed prices include tax