Product information
About
Japanese jelly beans in seven fruit flavours, each a crisp sugar shell around a chewy centre set with agar rather than gelatine. Agar is a jelly made from seaweed, and these beans are chewier than the soft gourmet kind. Buy them if you like a jelly bean with real chew; if you want the soft gourmet kind, this is the wrong bag.
On the pack: ゼリービンズ (zeh-ree-bins), with JELLY BEANS in English.
What you're getting
- Strawberry, melon, peach, grape, orange, banana and lemon.
- Very sweet: glucose syrup and sugar are the first two ingredients.
- An everyday supermarket sweet in Japan, often bought for children.
- The bag has a zip along the top and closes again.
- Allergens: milk, from the lactose in the beans. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
- Also on the label: artificial colours tartrazine (102), sunset yellow (110), allura red (129) and brilliant blue (133), and red cabbage colour. The glazing agent is not named, so it may be shellac, which comes from insects.
They can stick to your teeth, so go gently if you have dental fillings.
Ingredients
Glucose syrup (made in Japan), sugar, starch, lactose, agar
flavouring, colours (red cabbage, tartrazine, allura red, sunset yellow, brilliant blue), pullulan, glazing agent, (contains milk).
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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- Milk
- Dietary notes
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The centres are set with agar rather than gelatine. 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: 76 g
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
When I buy it once in a while it tastes incredibly good.
たまに買うと 物凄く美味しく感じます。
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they like
It has real chew, and it's tasty.
噛み応えあり、美味しい
from monolog
- What they like
The mix of flavours is nice.
色々な味が良い。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
They get stuck in your teeth pretty often.
結構な確率で歯に挟まる。
from monolog
- What they like
When my kids were small they were thrilled whenever I bought these.
子供が小さい時、たまに買うと喜んで食べていました。
from monolog
- What they like
Eating them again after a long gap, they felt fresh and tasted great.
久しぶりに食べたら新鮮で美味しかった
from monolog
- What they grumble about
They're sweet and they have colourings, but they're delicious.
甘いし、着色料もあるけれど美味しい。
from monolog
- What they like
My kids always fight over them.
いつも兄弟で取り合い。
from monolog
- What they like
You want them again and again!
何度も食べたくなる！
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I'd like a bit more in the bag.
もう少し量を増やして欲しい。
from monolog
- What they like
To my surprise, I finished the whole bag on my own in under half a day.
驚いたことに、一人で半日 足らずで食べきってしまいました。
from monolog
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 has been in business in Nagoya, in central Japan, since 1928. Its jelly beans start as a jelly of agar, poured into moulds pressed into cornstarch.
Once the jelly has set, the sugar shell is built up on each bean by hand, a job Kasugai's craftsmen train at for a year or more, and the beans are then glossed in a pan.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: kasugai.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
Often bought together
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Kasugai Japanese Jelly Beans Seven Fruit Flavours 76g
$4.70 AUD
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