Glico Cream Collon Wafer Rolls Otona no Sweet Potato

Two sweet potatoes go into this Collon.

Sweet potato powder carries the flavour and murasaki-imo — purple sweet potato — goes in alongside it, which is doing as much for the colour as the taste.

Purple sweet potato is a distinct variety grown mainly in Kyushu and Okinawa, deep violet all the way through, and Japanese confectioners use it when they want a sweet potato product that looks like one.

The cream inside each Collon comes out a pale mauve rather than the usual cream colour.

The flavour is gentler than the colour suggests.

Glico describes it as funwari yasashii amasa, a soft and gentle sweetness, and positions the product for a moment of calm rather than a treat — otona no, for grown-ups, is used across the Collon range to mean restrained rather than intense.

Domestic sweet potato, with the earthy, almost chestnut-like quality that roasted imo has.

Collon itself is a short wafer tube filled with cream, made by Glico since 1972, and the name comes from korokoro, the Japanese word for something small and rolling.

The shape is most of the charm: bite-sized cylinders that invite being lined up or stacked. A limited-period Collon at 48 g.

About this item
Item Name : Cream Collon Otona no Sweet Potato
Brand : Glico
Item Form : Wafer
Allergens: Egg, milk, wheat, soybean
Number of Items : 48g (Box of 1)