Ginbis Tabekko Dobutsu Shio Ramune Candy Sports Drink

Japanese summers have become genuinely punishing.

Temperatures now sit in the mid-thirties Celsius for weeks at a stretch with humidity to match, heatstroke warnings run on the morning news, and an entire retail category has grown up around it — every convenience store between May and September keeps a shelf of salt candies and rehydration drinks by the register, the way cold remedies appear in winter.

Ginbis put the Tabekko Dobutsu animals on one, and that is this: a summer salt candy wearing a costume that several generations of Japanese people already recognize on sight.

Tabekko Dobutsu began in 1978 as an animal-shaped biscuit with the animal’s English name printed across it, and the tablets here are pressed from those same silhouettes — thirty shapes in this edition, though a single bag will not hold all thirty.

The flavor is built to taste like a Japanese sports drink, that specific mild, faintly saline citrus profile that Pocari Sweat established here decades ago and that most people in Japan find more refreshing than sweet.

Each bag carries 0.6 g of salt and 1,000 mg of citric acid, alongside the calcium and green tea polyphenols that run through the whole Tabekko Dobutsu range.

The base is 89% glucose, which gives it the cold, prickling quickness ramune candy is known for, with a firm bite before it goes.

Practical for a gym bag, a desk drawer or a long walk in August — though a salt candy supplements drinking water rather than replacing it.

Please note that this product contains milk.

About this item
Item Name : Tabekko Dobutsu Shio Ramune Sports Drink
Brand : Ginbis
Item Form : Ramune Candy
Number of Items : 38g (Pack of 1)