Pinky is a brand of mint-flavored
candy
Candy, alternatively called sweets or lollies, is a Confectionery, confection that features sugar as a principal ingredient. The category, also called ''sugar confectionery'', encompasses any sweet confection, including chocolate, chewing gum ...
sold by Koikeya, formerly Frente International. It is known for its commercial .
Discontinued in 2018, it was revived in 2020 as "Pinky Fresh".
History
Pinky was originally released in 1997
under Frente International.
In 2006, they released a new flavor, grape mint, with heart-shaped mints as well as the original round-shaped mints.
As of 2016, they had flavors like peach and grape, as well as regionally-available flavors such as cherry for the
Tōhoku region
The , Northeast region, , or consists of the northeastern portion of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. This traditional region consists of six prefectures (): Akita, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi, and Yamagata.
Tōhoku retains ...
. In June 2016, Frente International's parent company Frente announced that they would integrate their subsidiaries Koikeya, Frente International, and Assist, and rebrand Frente as Koikeya, with the changes implemented in October.
Though discontinued in 2018, Pinky was revived in 2020 as "Pinky Fresh", a tablet candy and
functional food
A functional food is a food claimed to have an additional benefit beyond just nutrition (often one related to health promotion or disease prevention) by modifying the horticulture, cultivation of the native food or by food additive, adding ingr ...
containing ''
Lactobacillus salivarius
''Ligilactobacillus salivarius'' is a probiotic bacteria species that has been found to live in the gastrointestinal tract and exert a range of therapeutic properties including suppression of pathogenic bacteria.
Therapeutic research Irritabl ...
'' TI2711. The packaging replaced the pink monkey mascot {{Nihongo, Pinky Monkey, ピンキーモンキー with a white monkey Fresh Monkey.
See also
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Don Tacos, another product of Koikeya
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List of Japanese snacks
This is a list of Japanese and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks.
Types ''Anko'', or sweet bean paste
'' Anko'' is a kind of sweet bean paste.
Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan. School st ...
References
External links
Frente Spiral
Japanese brand foods
Brand name confectionery