Meigum Gaburichew Soft Candy Grape

Grape is the Gaburichew with actual fruit in it.

The ingredient list carries concentrated grape juice, which the ramune version has no equivalent of, and the colour comes from anthocyanin — the pigment in grape skins — alongside gardenia.

In a product this cheap, sold singly for a few tens of yen in dagashi shops, that is more than the format strictly requires.

What the juice buys is depth rather than authenticity.

The reference point is still Kyoho, the large dark table grape bred in Japan in the 1930s that the national palate is calibrated to, and the flavour lands where Japanese grape sweets always land: deep, sweet, unmistakably purple, more the grape of childhood than of a fruit bowl.

Against a candy you chew for several minutes, that sweetness has time to settle rather than hitting and vanishing.

The format is the point of the brand.

Gaburi is the sound of a committed bite, and each stick is thick enough to demand one — dense and resistant at first, then yielding, sitting somewhere between taffy and chewing gum.

Meiji Chewing Gum has made Gaburichew since the 1980s and now runs it as a substantial range.

Each stick is a standard 12 g, with a character printed on the wrapper that changes regularly.

About this item
Item Name : Gaburichew Grape
Brand : Meigum (Meiji Chewing Gum)
Item Form : Candy
Allergens: Milk, soybean, gelatin
Number of Items : 1 Stick (Pack of 1)