“Bamboo Sweets” is the world’s first series of sustainable sweets made of abandoned bamboo. LIFULL collaborated with bamboo producers, researchers and chefs, to develop a sustainable eco-system supporting production of the new idea. LIFULL offered the eating experience at its own restaurant, as well as through online and offline stores.
Bamboo grass Mojito
Bamboo dumplings with white bean chocolate
Bamboo-scented Japanese style Financier
Kudzu arrowroot Tofu served with bamboo charcoal
Soft black jelly of adzuki-bean with bamboo sugar
A drink of bamboo drip
Rakugan, dry confection of green bamboo starch and sugar
Kinton, mashed Japanese yam covered with white bamboo
While bamboo has been essential material for buildings and crafts in the lives of Japanese, it is facing a decline in demand. The aging of its producers is another issue advancing the challenge. What will this challenge bring? - Destruction and disaster to the eco-system. For the Sustainable Development Goals, LIFULL, a leading real estate information company in Japan, has developed a solution.
Bamboo trees are known to be the fastest growing plant in the world and they stretch longer than one meter everyday. Bamboo is also so extremely strong in reproduction power that it is officially top-ranked in the most uncontrollable plants. Bamboo forests have been decreasing in demand from the 1980s onwards, and with the aging heirless generation of bamboo producers, the issue of abandoned bamboo forests has become more serious and severe.
Bamboo roots are natured to grow by spreading wide and shallow, keeping a lot of water in the soil, which loosens the ground and makes its prone to landslides. The damage caused by these slides has become a serious social problem.
“Bamboo Sweets” is the world’s first series of sustainable sweets made of abandoned bamboo. LIFULL collaborated with bamboo producers, researchers and chefs, to develop a sustainable eco-system supporting production of the new idea. LIFULL offered the eating experience at its own restaurant, as well as through online and offline stores.
1. Logging of abandoned bamboo forests
2. Cleaning of bamboo
3. Drying in the shade
4. Crushing the material with a mill
5. Finished as powder
300,000 of abandoned trees have been consumed as food ingredient to conserve over 6,000 square-meters of natural environment. Profit earned from the project is returned to the collaborators to fund continued and expanded efforts for this challenge.
LIFULL is a leading real-estate information service in Japan, who aims to support and empower the many different ‘LIFE’s in the world to be ‘FULL’ of joy and safety, by solving social issues through their business serving the areas of housing, food and lifestyle.
BAMBOO SWEETS is a project aimed to achieve the SDGs of “12. Responsible consumption and production” and “15. Life on land”. In line with the SDGs, LIFULL commits to continuing this project.
