Product information
About
Round sugar balls too hard to bite, so you suck each one slowly and it lasts a long time. Think of a gobstopper or jawbreaker with a plain, gentle sugar taste and no fruit flavour: the colouring is the only difference between the balls, so every colour tastes the same. Buy it if you want a sweet that lasts; if you want a fruity lolly or something to crunch, this is the wrong bag.
On the pack: ちゃいなマーブル, said "chai-na mah-boo-roo". It has nothing to do with the country. Here china means porcelain, because the balls are as hard as porcelain, and marble is for their shine.
What you're getting
- Don't bite one. The ball is made to resist your teeth, and biting it risks a chipped tooth, so suck it until it is gone.
- Each ball is built of thin sugar layers, and it shrinks slowly as you suck it.
- Loose, unwrapped balls in a bag that zips shut again, so there are no wrappers to deal with.
- The colours come mixed, but a bag may not hold every one of them.
- Allergens: none declared. It is made in a factory that also makes products containing milk. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
- Also on the label: a glazing agent that is not named, so it may be shellac, which comes from insects.
Keep the bag away from small children: a hard, round ball like this can lodge in a child's throat.
Ingredients
Sugar (made in Japan), processed sugar, colours (Sunset Yellow FCF, Tartrazine, Brilliant Blue FCF), glazing agent.
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Allergens
- Contains
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None declared — the ingredient list names no allergen.
- May contain
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- Milk
Not ingredients — these are made or handled on the same equipment as this product, so traces are possible. We list every shared-equipment allergen stated on the pack or by the maker.
- Dietary notes
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The glazing agent is not named, so it may be shellac, which comes from insects.
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Details
- Maker
- Kasugai · Aichi
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One bag: 103 g of loose, unwrapped candy balls
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
The hardness is what's good.
固いのがいい
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they like
The gentle sweetness is nice.
優しい甘さが良いです
from monolog
- What they grumble about
It's only faintly sweet.
ほんのり甘いだけ。
from monolog
- What they like
I always bite into candy straight away, and I can't bite this one however hard I try, so it lasts. Good, ha.
飴をすぐ噛んでしまう人間なので、これは頑張っても噛めないので、長続きしてよい（笑）
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I'm impatient, so I get a real urge to bite it, and it starts to annoy me a bit.
短気だから、無性に噛みたくなってきて、ちょっとイライラしてくる(*_*;
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they grumble about
Too hard from start to finish. It won't crack at all.
始終硬すぎます全く砕けません
from monolog
- What they like
I bought it remembering how my grandma used to buy it for me when I was a child.
子供の頃おばあちゃんが買ってくれたのを思い出して購入しました。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
What an unusual taste.
独特な味だな。
from mognavi
- Good to know
I'd say one of these balls won't be gone for about ten minutes.
10分程度はなくならないと思います。
from mognavi
- What they like
Good that there are no wrappers.
包装紙がないからいい
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I'd love individually wrapped ones, and a smaller size.
個包装とサイズ小さいのがあると嬉しいです。
from yahoo
- What they like
They don't get sticky at all, even in summer, so they're really handy.
夏でも一切べた付きが無くて、重宝しております。
from yahoo
- What they grumble about
The colours used to be glossy, but now they're more muted.
色が昔は光沢があるものだったけど落ち着いた色になってた
from monolog
- Good to know
There are lots of colours, but they hardly taste any different.
色は何色もありますが、味ほとんど変わりません。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
A shame it uses colourings.
着色料使用なのが残念
from monolog
- What they like
My mother-in-law has always loved these, so I bought her a batch and she was really pleased!
義母は、昔からこの商品が大好きだったので、まとめて購入してあげたところ、大変喜んでもらえました！
from yahoo
- What they like
Every so often I get a real craving for it.
たまにむしょうに食べたくなります
from monolog
- What they like
In your mouth it feels like syrup slowly seeping out, and it takes ages to dissolve.
口に入れると、次第に水飴が溶けだしていく感じで、なかなか溶けない(;^_^A
from mognavi
Real quotes from the review sites named on the cards. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Kasugai
- Aichi
- Founded 1928
Kasugai was founded in Nagoya in 1928. Each of these balls starts as a grain of sugar turning in a rotating pan, and syrup is poured over it a little at a time until it grows into a ball. It is the same method as konpeito, Japan's tiny spiky sugar stars, but a different pan shape, temperature and tilt keep these round and smooth instead. The colour goes on last.
The sweet's old nickname is ichiri-dama, the one-ri ball. A ri is an old Japanese distance of about four kilometres, and one ball was said to last a walk that long.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: kasugai.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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