Ogontoh - Traditional Japanese Candy Golden Drop, 2.2 oz. (65g)

A candy as simple as they come, Japanese Ogontoh hard candies are a pure cane sugar candy that delivers on being sweet without compromising the sugar. Translating to golden sugar, these candies have been enjoyed for 3 generations and has maintained the same approach in making their pure confections. Similar to honey try the golden sugar candies for a taste of sugar in as close to its purest form possible.

• Ingredients: Sugar, corn syrup.
• Facts: Product of Japan
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• Ogontoh is a candy popular in Japan, especially in the Kansai area, since 1923. Though the package seems like the French flag, it is a Japanese product. “Ogon” means “gold” and “tou” (or “toh”) means “sugar.”
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• This candy is made of only sugar and mizuame, so it’s a quite simple taste that isn’t very unique. However, it makes you want to eat it again and again. Mizuame (水飴? is a sweetener from Japan which is translated literally to “water candy”. A clear, thick, sticky liquid, it is made by converting starch to sugars.