Takaoka Blueberry Chocolate Candy

Yet another in the torrent of blueberry candies coming out of the Japanese market comes to us from Candybowl newcomer Takaoka Chocolate Company.

As seen in the photo, it is a smooth and shiny ball.  It is also one of the smallest candies featured on this blog since Kanro Natury Berry.   The outside is blueberry-flavored chocolate and seems to have some kind of wax or lacquer on the surface, accounting for the sheen.  As a result, there is almost no flavor on sucking.

The morsel is soft to chew, and the blueberry chocolate shell mixes with a blueberry paste center to form a tasty fruity treat.  The berry flavor, however, is not entirely realistic and is muted somewhat by the chocolate.

This confection contains some artificial color and vegetable oil, however its main ingredients are sugar, cocoa powder, milk and milk solids, and blueberries.  Why blueberries?  Ask the Japanese.

A very nice debut from Takaoka.

UHA Tokuno Dense 8.2 Choco Candy

Here is another dense milk candy, this time from UHA.  Unlike the Senjaku Hokkaido candy recently reviewed on this blog, this one has chocolate.  And it makes a big difference.

Also unlike the Senjaku candy, the main ingredient in this confection is sugar. However, the second ingredient is starch syrup (which Candybowl assumes is like corn syrup). After that, it's milk, cream, chocolate, cream, condensed milk, butter, etc.

The form is not as elegant as UHA's cucu candies. This may owe something to the engineering required to get the choco into the dense milk.  Initial taste tests were excellent. Clean, fresh, sweet milk. The flavor is not terribly strong on sucking, but there are no off-notes to detract.

On chewing, it explodes with chocolate flavor, releasing a chocolate syrup that creates the confectionary illusion of a hot fudge sundae inside your mouth.  Wow. 

This is a very nice candy.  Try one now.