Sweets to prevent heat stroke

In these days, Tokyo is extremely hot.
Everyday, the temperature is going up to 37 or 38 centigrade degree.
We, people in Tokyo, must prevent heat stroke.
In June, about 400 people were taken to hospital because of heat stroke.

Today, I found a new display stand with strange sweets in a supermarket near from my home.



All of them are sweets with salt or sour and suger, and on the tags, I can read "To prevent heat stroke".

Japanese plum glaces


Japanese plum jellies


Sweet pickles of Japanese plums


Japanese plums are very acetic and contains plenty citric asid.

Azuki bean glaces with salt


Salty "konpeito" candies


I bought the last one and ate them.
I felt slightly salty taste from the face of each candy, and felt graceful sweetly taste.
A little salty taste made me to feel sweetly taste so deliciously.
It was a strange taste, but delicious for me, although I can't believe thats are effective to prevent heat stroke.

The Bread for Radiation Protection

I'm living in Nishi-Ogikubo area of Tokyo, known as "The battle field for eatery（食の激戦地）" in Japan.
There are many delicious restaurants, cafes, bars and bakeries.
This is a famous bakery, and they are selling many kinds of breads fresh from oven.



But last day, I found strange posters around this bakery telling about their new product.



"Fresh Bakery of Domestic Flours"
"Iodine-enriched Bread"

Iodine-enriched Bread ? What's that?



"How about a Bread with dried kelp powders for radiation protection?"

It was hard to hold back my laughter.
This area is about 200km from the Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant, but after the 3.11 quake and nuclear plant accidents very tiny quantity of radioactive substances were found, and people have been getting panics although radiocesium levels are beyond 150Bq and radioactive iodine had not detected after this June.
So, from now, it is not effective to eat Iodine-enriched Bread or dried kelp for protecting themselves from radiation, but the staffs of this bakery are not joking. They are believing this bread are effective to radiation protection.

And this bakery and this Iodine-enriched bread are loved by people of this area.