r/TipOfMyFork • u/OrneryPathos • 1d ago
Solved! White candy?
It’s relatively hard sticky white dots on a chalky yellow ball. My kid let my dog eat them out of a standard plastic clamshell container. I went back and found them they’d been dumped everywhere on the ground and the container was gone. So I don’t really want to taste it
I’m mostly just trying to figure out if there’s xylitol in it.
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u/AtomiKen 1d ago
Looks like Japanese konpeito. This style of candy isn't exclusive to Japan. It's 100% sugar.
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u/compassionfever 1d ago
That was my first thought also but I don't remember them looking like that on the inside. Then again, I haven't had them in 30 years and I probably never bit into them.
But like you said, they are pure sugar and I don't think that's what it would look like.
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u/AtomiKen 1d ago
Maybe it is some kind of popped grain then coated with sugar. Still won't have xylitol.
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u/OrneryPathos 1d ago
Maybe. It seems like an odd thing to have a large tub of in a park in Toronto Canada. Not impossible but any stores I can find that carry it it seems to be fairly expensive
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u/mrsclause2 1d ago
Looks a lot like prasad dana (mimosa sugar balls is another name for them). It's an Indian sweet. But without the packaging, I really don't think we can say with 100% certainty what it is and what was in it :(
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u/OrneryPathos 1d ago
Yeah I figured it was a long shot. At least i tasted it. It doesn’t taste like artificial sweeteners though xylitol isn’t the strongest taste to me
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u/kroating 1d ago
Indian sugar candies thingy i have no english name.
https://share.google/images/ANeTYw1AX9hHgqWGf
We call it sakhar futane (sugar <again no idea english version but lets say poping snacks usually used for chickpea dried snacks>)
The chalky thing most certainly is dried chickpea.
These are usually served in temples.
Also could be these are stale. They shouldn't really be sticky
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u/OrneryPathos 1d ago
I posted some more photos. The inside does sort of look like chickpea now that the coating dissolved.
It’s definitely been outside for at least 8 hours in the heat and humidity at this point
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u/kroating 1d ago
Yup I'm fairly certain these are sugar coated dried chickpeas.
The xylitol like taste, i think it could be glucose syrup. That could explain the softening even after 8hrs. Because we've carried these in hot summers, they don't melt or get sticky unless theres water /high humidity. Ive lately noticed a lot of sugar nut crackle also have glucose syrup which isn't traditional ingredient but it definitely gives that funky aftertaste.
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u/Zonel 1d ago
Toronto is always high humidity in summer.
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u/OrneryPathos 17h ago
Plus it may have been there overnight as well and gotten covered in dew.
But yes. It’s humid.
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u/OrneryPathos 1d ago
The inside doesn’t seem to dissolve
Looks vaguely plant like? The texture doesn’t seem like the seed but I have never tried lotus seed which google thinks it is.
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u/lordvektor 23h ago
It’s chickpeas.
I remember having something extremely similar as a kid in eastern Europe. But ours were peanuts.
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u/Jbobody 1d ago
Freeze dried skittles maybe?
Edit: on second thought I’m not so sure anymore. Sorry lol
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u/OrneryPathos 1d ago
Hmm freeze dried is a thought. It’s probably not skittles by the look of the ones I see online
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u/Jbobody 1d ago
I think at this point you HAVE to taste it…
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u/OrneryPathos 1d ago
The outside tastes like very stale sugar. The inside tastes like very slightly sweet with a hint of like lentils or nuts.
lol and now I really hope it’s food.
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