13:00 Hongo Sanchome Station Meeting

The meeting is at Hongo Sanchome Station
"I want to take up the theme of the environment at the school festival"
Euglena was proposed by the teacher, Mr. Suzuki. Most of the students are new to the University of Tokyo, so the conversation bloomed even before they went to college.

13:15 Commemorative photo taken at Akamon

Speaking of the University of Tokyo, Akamon took a commemorative photo first.

13:30 To the University of Tokyo Communication Center​

After passing through Akamon, the first stop was the University of Tokyo Communication Center. This is like a "souvenir shop" that sells original ballpoint pens, notebooks, straps, etc. from the University of Tokyo. However, the store manager says that it is not just a "souvenir shop". "We sell products made from the results of research at the University of Tokyo."

For example, Awamori called Usaki is one of them, which is made from bacteria that have been revived by fermentation science, which was being researched at the University of Tokyo, and is said to be easy to drink.

​Another one introduced was the "Ren Shan" series, which was developed in collaboration with Shiseido and the University of Tokyo. Experience the scent and comfort of oil removing paper together. I saw a happy face with a "good scent".

Everyone is curious about the free tour inside the Communication Center, surrounded by various things.

13:40 To the University of Tokyo Entrepreneur Plaza

After leaving the Communication Center, I finally went to the University of Tokyo Entrepreneur Plaza, where the laboratory is located, and before entering the laboratory, I explained the products using Euglena I also observed Euglena using a microscope.

After Suzuki and Ogata of Euglena Co., Ltd. introduced themselves, first introduced the supplement, Euglena Pure.

Yu: "It contains vitamins and minerals in a well-balanced manner, and has the effect of producing unwanted substances in the body."
Yu: "I usually drink it as a capsule, but today, please take the powder out of the capsule and lick it."

Yu: "How do you feel about the powder and how do you feel when you lick it?"
Hiro: "The appearance is similar to chlorella, and the taste is also"
Hiro: "It looks like matcha, but it tastes like green juice."
Hiro: "It looks like seaweed? It feels like something like the sea."

Next, I observed Euglena

Hiro: "The shape is like a flower bud of broccoli, it's similar to a tadpole."
Hiro: "Wow! It's moving!"
Yu: "Do you know how big Euglena
Hiro: "Well, how many microns or so?"
Yu: "Oh yeah, it's about 100 microns long and 10 microns wide."

Hiro: "You just ate this !?"
Hiro: "Euglena be eaten alive?"
Yu: "Well, you can drink it, but it's easier to drink because the volume is smaller when it's dried."
Hiroshi: "Euglena stimulates you?"
Hiro: "Because I'm in the water, I feel like I'm always inspired."
Yu: "It has the property of going in the direction of the light stimulus."
Yu: "The part that looks red when viewed under a microscope feels the light and moves."

Next is a tasting Euglena cookie that is being prototyped.

Yu: "Euglena. Why don't you try it?"
Hiro: "I want to eat !!!"

— Tasting —

Hiro: "This is delicious! Isn't it commercialized?"
Yu: "It's still in the prototype stage, I'm trying to make chocolate and cheese flavors."
Hiro: "Please commercialize this! It will definitely sell."
Yu: "How much would you like to buy?"
Hiro: "Hmm, 300, 200 yen for 3 bottles?"
Hiro: "It Euglena, but I think it's sweeter and much easier to eat than the capsules I just mentioned."

"Because we've come all the way, let's put together a sketch to see how the taste, smell, and texture are," says Dr. Suzuki.
Hiro: "Powder sticks well to your hands"
Suzu: "What does it mean to be easy to handle? It means that the particles are fine."
Yu: "How about a sketch of Euglena
Hiroshi: "Euglena moves so well that it's difficult to sketch."

14:30 Laboratory tour

Move from the conference room to the 7th floor of Entrepreneur Plaza. Finally, it is a tour of the laboratory.
First, using the board near the entrance, researcher Ogata explained the function of Euglena

Yu: "Euglena is grown on Ishigaki Island. It is grown in such a circular pool so that carbon dioxide can easily transfer to water and the area exposed to light is large. Ishigaki Island has abundant good groundwater. It is a place where it is easy to cultivate Euglena because the solar energy is very strong. "

Yu: "Euglena is very nutritious, and it is said that it will release unnecessary things that have accumulated in the body. Euglena, you only need to eat rice. I'm so nutritious. "

Hiro: "Wow!"

Yu: "In a closed system where substances like the universe do not enter and exit, humans Euglena and emit carbon dioxide, and Euglena grows and emits oxygen by sucking the carbon dioxide, and humans who breathe that oxygen again Euglena. There is also research that such a circulation that eats and emits carbon dioxide can be established if there is light energy. Euglena was used, but NASA and Russian institutions were also researching with the same concept. that's right."

Yu: "Next, in Bangladesh, there are many people who have carbohydrates like rice but lack vegetables and meat, so they are deficient in vitamin A and become blind at night. Euglena supplements a day should improve your symptoms, and it is also effective for people in developed countries as well as the effects mentioned earlier and the deterioration of metabolism due to overeating. It is thought that there is. "

Yu: "At the lab, Euglena does and what ingredients it contains."

Yu: "Do you have any questions so far?"
Hiroshi: "In what condition do you bring Euglena
Yu: "It's an aquarium."
Yu: "For example, if you surround the aquarium with something else so that oxygen and carbon dioxide can move back and forth, it becomes a circulatory system."
Yu: "Do you have any other questions? Anything is fine."
Hiroshi: "Is Hasegawa (of Euglena drinking professional basketball) strong?"
Yu: "I'm strong, I'm like a basketball player Kazu."
Yu: Euglena seems to be useful when martial arts players lose weight, because it has no calories but is nutritious."
Hiro: "Ah! I see!"
Hiroshi: "If a metabolic person drinks ... (Gaze is focused on Mr. Suzuki) Can you be healthy?"
Yu: "Yes, I think it will be."
Hiro: "I have to buy a teacher's box!"
Suzu: "I understand ..."
Yu: "Teacher, I'm trying to change it online."
(Everyone laughs)

Yu: "Then, from here on, I'd like to ask everyone to actually experiment.
What to do ... I want everyone to discover a Euglena Euglena in a word, there are many kinds like human beings. We have water from various places, so this time we would like to ask you to help us find Euglena"

Yu: "First, disinfect your hands and put your hands in the draft before it dries. Use a pipette to put a medium in a test tube and pour water containing Euglena Now, pour it with a Pasteur pipette, that's it. Make a mark so you know which tube you used. "

Even the students who were happy in the conference room are serious when experimenting with their own hands. Work was done one by one.

Yu: "I'll contact you when a nice green color comes out."
Yu: "I asked him to do his best, but sometimes nothing remains."
Hiro: "Well, I did it with all my might."
Yu: "That's an experiment."

Finally, a Our Ltd., to the students.

De: "Thank you for your hard work today, I Euglena to you next time. I think that everyone had various experiences today and something was memorable. If you leave it alone, it will be in your head. Let's take notes so that we don't forget it! We are looking forward to receiving reports on the contents of the school festival. "
Yu: "If you have any questions, please do anything."

14:40 End of tour, confirm future schedule

Yu: "What are your thoughts on today's day?"
Hiro: "I enjoyed doing various things."
Hiro: "The most fun thing was when I was talking about cookies, I felt like I was developing something."
Hiroshi: "I imagined the laboratory would be more dirty, but it wasn't at all and it was clean."
Hiroshi: "I was nervous because there were a lot of instruments I saw and used for the first time in the laboratory."
Hiroshi: "I will definitely come to the University of Tokyo, remember your name!"

After the tour, head to Hongo Sanchome Station to catch the train
Suzu: "Let's do our best based on what we experienced today, let's talk about the future flow together."
Hiro: "Yes!"

Hiroo Gakuen's school festival is October 13th and 14th. I'm looking forward to the announcement from now on.