One of Japan’s leading supermarkets is to start stocking quarter-size cauliflowers and cabbages as part of a new dwarf vegetable range for single people.
Japanese retail giant Aeon said it had taken the decision to ramp up its mini- vegetable range after successful trials of half-size radishes.
“A growing number of people, especially in urban areas, live alone and they cannot consume large vegetables by themselves,” said company spokeswoman Naoko Ueda.
The mini versions of traditional vegetables have been developed by Switzerland’s biotechnology firm Syngenta Seeds, which prides itself on serving growers’ individual requirements.