{"id":932187,"date":"2026-10-18T03:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932187\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T03:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:50:19","slug":"taiwan-bulks-up-on-protein-packed-bentos-as-obesity-rates-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932187\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan bulks up on protein-packed bentos as obesity rates rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/food-beverage\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Food &amp; Beverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Chain stores look to tap into growing health consciousness that spans generations<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/8.png\" alt=\"20261013N The Protein Box\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Customers come to The Protein Box bento chain\u00a0in Taipei\u00a0just after noon to get lunch.\u00a0(Photo by Nikkei)<\/p>\n<p>RYOSUKE EGUCHI<\/p>\n<p>October 17, 2026 17:40 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; High-protein meals are becoming increasingly popular in Taiwan, with specialty stores popping up and convenience store operators expanding lineups of such products as interest in health and fitness grows across age groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Food &amp; Beverage Chain stores look to tap into growing health consciousness that spans generations Customers come to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,498994,391105,137,532,4390,498993,14825,19306,11069],"class_list":["post-932187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bentos","tag-bulks","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-obesity","tag-protein-packed","tag-rates","tag-rise","tag-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}