Collection: Nerunerunerune

Nerunerunerune is the DIY candy that changes colour while you stir it. Add water to the powder, work it with the spoon, and a dull paste turns bright and puffs up in the tray. Kracie launched it in 1986 and it started the whole chiiku-gashi — “educational candy” — category that Popin’ Cookin’ later grew out of.

There is no baking and no microwave. Water is the only thing you add, which is why it is one of the few kits a child can genuinely make on their own.

The flavours we stock, and how they differ:

• Grape — the standard one, with candy chips to scatter on top. Start here if it is your first.
• Soda — the same process with colourful ramune pieces. In Japan soda and cider are the same flavour, which surprises most people the first time.
• Melon — the original 1986 flavour, brought back for the 40th anniversary.
• Space Fruit — mixed berry and pineapple in one pack, also a 40th-year release.
• DX Grape & Cola — the large box for four or five people. Start with grape, add the cola powder, then work through four toppings.

The packaging is entirely in Japanese. If you want the background first, we explain why the colour changes and how it started the category.

Everything is the Japanese retail product, bought and posted from our shop in Tokyo. If you are deciding between this and the cooking kits, we compared them in Popin’ Cookin’ vs Nerunerunerune.