Masks Made From Melon Bread Released In Japan

Melon pan shouldn’t be solely scrumptious, however one Japanese firm additionally thinks it will possibly make a great masks.

Osaka-based experimental assume tank Goku no Kimochi The Labo has created “Masks Pan” or “Masks Bread” after school college students from Fukuoka and Okinawa determined they need to sniff the scent of bread on a regular basis. What higher method to do this than carrying melon pan in your face?

FNN experiences that Goku no Kimochi The Labo roped in famed melon pan specialty store Melon de Melon to bake the bread. For every Masks Pan, the center is carved out, making area for the wearer’s mouth and nostril. As foolish as this may appear (and goodness does it ever), the melon pan’s signature crunchy exterior supposedly has a level of effectiveness.

In accordance with the official Masks Pan web site, the masks have been rated by an outdoor group, Unitika Garment Expertise’s analysis division, and the outcomes indicated the chance that the bread coverings have been equal to and even higher than different commercially offered urethane masks to forestall the unfold of droplets.

Beneath, the picture within the higher left reveals the unfold of droplets with out a masks. The higher proper reveals a generally offered urethane masks, whereas the underside left is the Masks Pan. (Subsequent to that’s the inspection certificates.)

Whereas these aren’t precisely N-95 or medical masks, they’re not merely a gag product as a result of they do provide a level of safety. As a lot as I do love melon pan, I might not need to put on it on my face all day lengthy. Others apparently do, as a result of all of the masks allotted for June shipments have offered out!

Nonetheless, these are definitely not commonplace in Japan in any respect. You, and just about anybody else, could be stunned to see them in public—shocked, even.

Goku no Kimochi The Labo is presently prepping the July batch, with a set of 5 bread masks priced at 1,800 yen ($16.40). The bread masks are shipped refrigerated and can be good for someday after thawing.

And sure, you’ll be able to in fact eat the melon bread masks. After it’s been in your sweaty face. All-day lengthy. Yum.