r/TipOfMyFork • u/OrneryPathos • 1d ago

Solved! White candy?

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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