Meiji Ramune Up Gummy Candy

The Up series has a simple visual logic: every flavor is molded as the bottle it came from.

Cola Up wears the classic contour bottle; Ramune Up, added to the family in 2022, takes the shape of something far more Japanese — the ramune bottle, with its pinched glass neck built to trap a rolling marble.

That bottle deserves a word. Ramune — the name is a Meiji-era Japanese rendering of “lemonade” — is sealed not with a cap but with a glass marble held in place by the drink’s own carbonation, opened by punching the marble down into the neck.

The pop, the rattle, the impossible-to-finish last sip: it is the sound and taste of Japanese summer festivals, and the flavor here is its faithful translation — light, sweet-tart, and clean, noticeably more refreshing than the cola sibling, with the crisp soda character reviewers keep calling sawayaka.

The chew is the series at full strength.

The package’s own texture chart rates it 5 out of 5 — the maximum — and Meiji markets it with a slogan that says everything about how Japan uses hard gummies: “chew to switch your concentration on.”

This is a gummy positioned as a desk tool, something to bite through when focus flags, and the physics back it up: dense enough that the little bottles stand upright on a table, generous enough at 100 grams that the resealable bag lasts through many such moments.

A practical grace note fans appreciate — no sugar dusting or powder coating, so fingers and keyboards stay clean.

With Cola Up the pioneer and Melon Soda Up the newest arrival, Ramune Up is the middle child that many Japanese reviewers quietly prefer: the lightest flavor in the line, on the hardest possible chew, in the most Japanese bottle of all.

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