I had my first taste of natto last week in a very nice hotel in Tosa. Breakfast is always a bit of of challenge for my gaijin tastebuds, and I’m also terrified of doing a faux-pas. the day before I had my rice in the tea cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The very nice lady explained to me with gesture: break the raw egg in the natto, stir stir stir, put on the rice and eat. I did, and then it took all my scientific mind to dig in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The taste is strong but ok, I guess. The strings that the beans make are very interesting. I do not wish to have this experience again too soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Natto is from the family of fermented beans. The bacteria doing the job is Lactobacillus subtilus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nattokinase<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other fermented beans by Lactobacilli<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I had my first taste of natto last week in a very nice hotel in Tosa. Breakfast is always a bit of of challenge for my gaijin tastebuds, and I’m also terrified of doing a faux-pas. the day before I had my rice in the tea cup. The very nice lady explained to me with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8,10,9],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-science-of-farts","tag-bean","tag-japan","tag-natto"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250718_0829323229662287269616702.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizenkelp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}