Easy to eat foods for people needing nursing care are improving in quality and availability as makers look to tap a growing market in rapidly graying Japan.
Food makers are offering a growing variety of soft-food products with essential nourishment for people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing, while the products are also getting greater prominence on supermarket shelves.
Kewpie Corp., for example, has 54 items in five categories, varying in degree of softness and thickness, in its Yasashii Kondate (Gentle Menu) series of packaged foods for the elderly.