Nakao Shokuhin has been created in 1927 in the Sakai City, in Osaka, by the great-grandfather of the current president, Kikumatsu Nakao. A producer and seller of konjac-based products, the company wants to democratize konjac on tables around the world by combining tradition and creativity. Cultivated on Japanese soil for nearly 1,200 years, konjac is a rapidly perishable commodity that, for a long time, was consumed only by the highest ranks of Japanese society. Nakao Shokuhin continues to use a traditional production method, which takes longer and requires more effort than current industrial methods, to preserve the original taste of konjac.