Yakult's business activities began with founder ... The bacterium was named L. casei strain Shirota after taking the name of Shirota. When Shirota began researching the therapeutic uses of ...

The production of Yakult (pronouned "YAA-kult") began in the 1930s, after founder Dr. Minoru Shirota successfully cultured a specific strain of bacteria (known as Lactobacillus casei strain ...

Yakult’s fermented milk product in the little bottle requires no introduction. Each bottle contains billions of beneficial bacteria belonging to a strain called Lacticaseibacillus paracasei ...

Riding the coattails of Yakult Honsha Co.'s Yakult 1000 probiotic ... one bottle of the probiotic drink contains about 100 billion of the Shirota strain of lactic acid bacteria.

who was the founder of Yakult and a doctor of medicine. In 1930, Dr Shirota was successfully able to fortify and culture strain of a bacteria that is able to withstand strong gastric acids and ...

We hope that you and your family will stay healthy always and continue to enjoy the benefits of Shirota strain by taking Yakult every day," he said. Did you know that a healthy gut supports 80 per ...