Kankitsu Labo Sudachi Citrus Extract (275 mL)

Kankitsu means Japanese citrus, and that is the whole brief. Kankitsu Labo exists to carry fruit that has barely left Japan — sudachi, yuzu, amanatsu — to people outside it, and to give the growers and small manufacturers in the countryside a reason to keep going.

The fruit comes from the southern prefectures: Tokushima, Ehime, Yamaguchi. The extracts are pressed from the sides rather than crushed whole, which imitates squeezing by hand and keeps the bitter oil in the peel where it belongs.

Alongside the extracts there are candied peels and organic jams, all drawn from the same orchards.