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Pine Ame Pineapple Ring Hard Candy 110g Bag
$6.17 AUD
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Made byPineOsaka, Japan
Pine Ame Pineapple Ring Hard Candy 110g Bag
Pineapple hard candies shaped like a slice of tinned pineapple, each one a flat ring with a hole in the middle.
Regular price $6.17AUD
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Why we say this
508 people have rated this bag on monolog, a Japanese review site, and 34 of the 76 reviews we read call it unchanged since childhood (October 2026).
The range
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Product information
About
Pineapple hard candies shaped like a slice of tinned pineapple, each one a flat ring with a hole in the middle. They taste sweet and sour, with a clear pineapple flavour, and they are not sickly sweet. Buy them if you like a fruity boiled lolly you can suck slowly; if you want a soft or chewy sweet, this is the wrong bag.
On the pack: パインアメ, with PINEAPPLE CANDY in English. Pine Ame is said "pine ah-meh": Pine is the maker's name, and ame means candy.
What you're getting
- A flat hard candy, so it sits easily on the tongue.
- The rim has small ridges you can feel.
- Sucked slowly, it keeps its hole until near the end.
- Each candy is wrapped on its own. The 110 g on the pack includes the wrappers, which works out at about 22 candies a bag.
- Near the end, as the ring wears thin, the edge can turn sharp enough to catch your tongue.
- Allergens: milk, from the skim milk powder in the candy. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
The hole is there for the look: blowing through it makes no sound, so it is not a whistle sweet. Keep the bag away from small children, because a hard candy can lodge in a small child's throat.
Ingredients
Sugar (made in Japan), glucose syrup, pineapple juice, skim milk powder
acidity regulator, flavouring, colours (safflower yellow, Monascus).
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
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
- Pine · Osaka
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One bag: 110 g including the wrappers, about 22 individually wrapped candies
Our guide
How to eat it
Good to know
- They are eaten as they are, one at a time from the wrapper; the other use is a pineapple yoghurt: stir 8 candies into 400 g of plain yoghurt, cover it and leave it in the fridge for a day. At 6 hours they are still whole; by 24 hours they have melted into a pineapple syrup.
- If the candies turn white on the surface, that is damp air making the sugar crystallise again, not mould. It is harmless, and keeping the bag closed and dry helps prevent it.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
Not too sweet, and the pineapple flavour comes through properly. Tasty.
甘すぎずパインの風味がしっかり感じられて美味しい
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they like
A tasty sweet that hasn't changed since I was a kid.
子どもの頃から変わらない美味しい飴です。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I'd like it a bit more sour.
も少し酸味欲しいなぁ
from monolog
- What they like
Sucking it right down to the end with the hole still there is oddly satisfying.
真ん中の穴を保ったまま、最後までなめきるとなんか嬉しい😊
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they like
I keep sweets on the corner of the table, and this is the one my family likes best.
家のテーブルの隅に飴を置いておくのですが、この飴が1番家族に人気です笑
from monolog
- What they like
The ridged edge feels nice in your mouth.
ギザギザが口の中でいい感じ♡
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Maybe nothing can be done about it, but near the end it gets pointy and jabs my tongue, which is a bit sad.
どうしようもないかもしれませんが、最後の方飴が尖ってきて舌に刺さるのがちょっとかなしい
- What they like
The hole keeps the sweetness in check, so it isn't cloying, and it feels fun on the tongue.
真ん中の穴が、甘さ加減の調整になっているから、甘ったるくないし、舌触りが面白い(^○^)
from mognavi
- What they like
It takes me back, and nothing else has a hole in the middle, so I buy it often.
昔懐かしく、真ん中に穴があるのが他になくよく買う。
from monolog
- Good to know
Blowing through the hole makes no sound, but I still end up playing with it in my mouth.
吹いても音はならないけどなんとなく口の中で吸ったりして遊んでまう。
from mognavi
- What they like
Someone at an old job always handed these out, and I think of them every time I see one.
昔働いていた職場でいつもこの飴をくれる人がいて、コレを見るたびその人を思い出します
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The sweetness wins out a little, I think.
やや甘さのほうが強いかな。
from mognavi
- What they like
The bag is packed full, which is good.
1袋にピッシリと入ってるのでいい
from monolog
- What they like
The flavouring is strong, but there's no nasty aftertaste. Tasty.
香料が強いけど嫌な後味がなく美味しいです。
from mognavi
- What they like
It's been around forever. Sweet and sour, and tasty.
昔からありますね、甘酸っぱくて美味しいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Eat too many and it cuts the inside of your mouth, so watch out, ha.
食べすぎたら口の中切れるから要注意（笑）
from mognavi
- What they like
I don't buy it again and again or push it on people, but it's a standard I want every so often.
めっちゃくちゃリピートするとか人にオススメするみたいなことはないですが、たまに口にしたくなる味の定番商品ですね。
from mognavi
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The maker
Where it comes from
- Pine
- Osaka
- Founded 1948
Pine is a sweet maker from Osaka, started in 1948, and this pineapple candy, sold since 1951, is its flagship. The very first ones were flat, with a pineapple slice pressed into the top and no hole at all.
The company's first president held that the candy was not finished until it had a hole, like a real ring of tinned pineapple. So at first the holes were poked by hand, with a bamboo chopstick wrapped in cotton, until a machine took over in 1953 and gave the candy the shape it still has today.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: pine.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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