[A Japanese sweets manufacturer is hoping to introduce one of its more unusual products onto the European market.
Eiwa Confectionery, one of the country's most popular confectioners, has created collagen marshmallows which, it claims, help to plump up your cheeks and lips.
The marshmallows, which are a recent addition to the growing army of so-called "functional foods", are currently available in blueberry, cherry and grapefruit flavours and are said to look and feel like traditional marshmallows.
According to Eiwa Confectionery, the sweets, which each contain 3,000 mg of collagen, have the same effect as a collagen injection but, at the equivalent of just 60 pence per packet, cost significantly less than the £200-plus price tag associated with the cosmetic procedure.
A company spokesman told the Scotsman that the product has so far been an "enormous success" in Japan and confirmed that the company hopes to export to the UK and elsewhere in Europe.
"We feel it will sell well in supermarkets or sweet shops, as it does in Japan. That is our ambition," he said.]
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