Meiji Melon Soda Up Gummy Candy

When your gummy is the direct descendant of Japan’s first-ever gummy, expanding the family is serious business.

Melon Soda Up, released in spring 2025, gives the Cola Up formula its most Japanese possible flavor — and turns the hardness up another notch while it’s at it.

The package announces cho-hard — “super hard” — and the reviews suggest Meiji means it.

Veteran gummy eaters describe it as among the hardest they have ever chewed, a dense, oversized piece molded as a retro glass soda bottle that demands genuine jaw work before it yields.

That resistance is the design: the flavor releases gradually as you chew, so a couple of pieces occupy you the way a whole handful of soft gummies would, and Japanese fans report reaching for it as a mid-work refresher, something to bite through when the afternoon drags.

The flavor is melon soda — the luminous green pop of Japan’s retro coffee shops and summer festivals, a taste that means childhood to most of the country.

Reviewers describe it landing exactly right: the sweet, fragrant melon aroma rising the moment the bag opens, a rich, deliberately nostalgic soda sweetness in the chew, and a faint fizzy tingle in the finish that nods to the carbonation of the real glass.

More than one review uses the word natsukashii — nostalgic — and one simply declares it better than the cola original.

Like its sibling, this is a generous 100-gram bag, muted jade-green pieces in a bottle shape charming enough that reviewers photograph them lined up in rows.

Together the pair make a neat set: Cola Up, the 1980 pioneer, and Melon Soda Up, the new flavor wearing Japan’s own soda.

For the pantheon of Japanese melon soda treats on our shelves, this is the one you have to chew for.

About this item
Item Name : Melon Spda Up
Brand : Meiji
Item Form : Gummy Candy
Number of Items : 100g (Pack of 1)