Cultured milk that Inner Mongolian nomads were drinking gave a hint to produce CALPIS.For them, cultured milk is a source of nutrition for their lives and a healing medicine.
We expected that “ CALPIS Cultured Milk”, of which CALPIS is made, may consist a feature that can contribute to maintain health, and we had started a research to investigate its physiological effect from 1970's.After almost 10 years of intensive studies, we had succeeded to reveal that “ CALPIS Cultured Milk” has an effect of prolong lifetime from an experiment using mice and accomplished to reproduce such effects.After an additional 15 years of research, we had revealed that it had a blood pressure adjustment function through a clinical study on human body.
The outcome of these studies was materialized as CALPIS Cultured Milk / AMEAL S, a Food for Specified Health Use (FOSHU) for people with high blood pressure. We have succeeded to launch it in July 7, 1997.“Desire to contribute to the health of people by utilizing lactobacilli and cultured milk” - The wish of Kaiun Mishima, the founder of our company, has been consistently shared by all of our staffs throughout the last 90 years.

Support to build health on everyday basis mainly by offering FOSHU

Functional food business is one of our core businesses with the goal of putting smiles on customers' faces by supporting their health.We utilize our unique technologies developed by many years of the researches on lactobacilli and cultured milk to offer high added-value products based on scientific facts.
We have been developing various products including FOSHU items based on lactobacilli studies / microorganisms utilization technologies and beverage development techniques.
We are determined to offer products that can address the needs of the customers even before such demand comes out. We will further pursue our research to solve concerns of the modern people such as metabolic syndrome and anti-aging from the aspect of “food”.

Online or by phone: Special items are available by convenient direct shopping service

We are running our original online store and call center order taking service to make our health-oriented and functional foods available to more customers in a convenient way.
Our direct shopping organization, “Calpis Kenkou Tomo-no-Kai” sells items in KENSAI SEIKATSU Series, only available through direct-shopping, as well as AMEAL S and KEN-CHA-OH.We support the daily health of our customers by offering a “regular delivery service” that delivers items periodically on the day requested by the customer and “a Bulk buying campaign”.We will continue to enhance the provision of health information and services in addition to offering products with unique value only from Calpis aiming to become a life-long partner of customers in their quest for good health.

Applying our unique functional ingredients to produce various foods

We have successfully developed the powder formed functional food ingredients: “AmealPeptide” containing our unique functional material Lactotripeptides (LTP), and Lactobacillus L-92, functional lactobacillus, applicable not only to beverages but also to various food products.
By applying this technology, we had succeeded to launch AMEAL supplements.

Since 2005, we have been engaged in development and promotion of such functional food ingredients and undertaking the business to enlarge the intellectual property in full scale. Our products are adopted by leading companies in Japan and overseas and are used to produce various foodstuffs.
By leveraging on our technologies and established brand assets that we have been growing for a long period of time, in order to develop health / functional foods, we are determined to expand the possibilities of its utilization for varieties of foods in various countries.