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Foodtech Grand Prix 2025: Grand Prize Won by Caramelers -Toothpaste Sweets Save the World's Toothbrush Victims
2025/10/14
The Food Tech Grand Prix 2025 was held on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at the Center of Garage to select the winning teams for the Grand Prize and the Corporate Award.
Since 2020, the Tech Planter has been developed under the concept of "Deep Issue & Deep Tech Explorer," in which unsolved issues (Deep Issue) are solved with the collective power of science and technology (Deep Tech). This year, 335 teams from Japan and abroad applied. Twelve teams selected from among them took the stage as finalists and passionately presented their ideas for solving social issues using technology and the possibilities for developing fundamental technologies.
The winner of the Grand Prize was "Caramelers" (theme: Saving the world's tooth-brushing sweet tooth), which uses sweeteners and cyclic oligosaccharides that bacteria cannot use to help the elderly, young children, and others who cannot brush their teeth easily, Caramelers has developed a "toothpaste sweet" that enables plaque control. This work was selected for the Grand Prize because it overturns the conventional wisdom of tooth brushing, which is conventionally thought of as brushing with a toothbrush, and presents an implementable approach that no one had imagined, based on insights rooted in years of field experience, and the expectation that all judges can be involved from multiple perspectives.
Caramelers, along with the Tech Planter Grand Prize winning teams in six other areas,The Japan Society for Hyperdifferentiation 2026 Tokyo-Kanto Conference(March 6 and 7, 2026) to participate in a special pitch session. In addition, the two teams that perform well in this session will advance to the TECH PLANTER Asia Final 2026. Through this platform, REVANES will expand the ecosystem in Japan and Southeast Asia where venture companies, large corporations, mid-sized companies, and researchers will work together to solve deep issues.
Grand Prize winner Caramelers and the entire jury
List of Company Awards and Grand Prizes
| Team Name | theme | winning (a prize) |
| AdFunctions, Inc. | Development of exercise support food utilizing bitter gourd juice powder | Yoshinoya Prize |
| F-EAT Corporation | Changing the world with next-generation food ingredients x 3D x XR | Takara Holdings Award |
| Dishwill Inc. | Correlation between Soy Protein and Soy Breeding and its Commercialization | UnlocX Award |
| NEXT NEW WORLD Co. | Changing the world with silk protein research | Otsuka Foods Award |
| MED R&D Co. | Development of Functional Foods by Food-Drug Seeds and Bioassays | Real Tech Fund Award JT Prize |
| MISOVATION Inc. | Building a Preventive Medical Infrastructure through High Functional Miso Soup | special award |
| Storyline Inc. | High quality decaffeinated coffee by supercritical carbon dioxide extraction | |
| Caramelers | Saving the world's toothpaste wimps with toothpaste sweets | DAIDOH LIMITED Group Institute for Future Co-Creation Award Grand Prize |
| FlavoSense Lab | Prediction model for bitter and sweet tastes by GNN | |
| ScatLight | Near-infrared scattering spectroscopy for nondestructive evaluation of various food qualities | |
| VegOral.lab | Ingredient exploration and functional food application for oral care | |
| citrus skin | Utilizing Microorganisms and People in the Primary Wall of Waste Biomass | Nipun Award |
Demo Day Implementation Overview
Name of the Grand Prix: Foodtech Grand Prix 2025
Location: Center of Garage (1-16-3 Yokogawa, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0003, Japan)
Date: Saturday, October 11, 2025, 13:00-20:00
Participation: Closed, pre-registration required (entry teams, partner companies, Super Factory Group Professional Supporters)
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