Since ancient times sesame seeds were referred to as “the secret medicine of perpetual youth and longevity” and are known to be a superfood full of nutrition.
Kuki has not changed our fundamental method of manufacturing sesame oil since our establishment in 1886. We begin by strictly inspecting raw ingredients for quality, and then proceed to compress these ingredients by our “pressing method” which does not use any chemicals in order to extract the fragrant sesame oil.
Unlike soybeans and other crops, sesame plants overseas are often grown by small-scale farmers. Sesame seeds harvested by those farmers are collected in one place and imported into Japan.
Kuki was founded in 1886 (Meiji Era Year 19), the era of turbulence, when Monshichi Kuki started pressing sesame oil in Yokkaichi city, Mie Prefecture with an oil machine he acquired from the British. He applied the “continuous pressing method”, making Kuki the first company in Japan to apply this particular type of manufacturing process for the production of sesame oil.
