mitsumame

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noun

A Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas (or sometimes azuki beans), often gyūhi, shiratama dango and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of kuromitsu, which one pours onto the jelly before eating.

OriginJapanese みつまめ →
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Meanings

nounmitsumame (uncountable)
  1. uncountableA Japanese dessert made of small cubes of agar jelly, served in a bowl with boiled red field peas (or sometimes azuki beans), often gyūhi, shiratama dango and a variety of fruits such as peach slices, mikan, pieces of pineapples, and cherries, usually coming with a small pot of kuromitsu, which one pours onto the jelly before eating.

    The dessert is mitsumame with ice cream, cut fruit and diced kanten in syrup.

    2003 January 29, “Japanese Cuisine”, in The Index-Journal, Greenwood, S.C., page 1C
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    Shun set a small bowl of mitsumame, a cold gelatin dessert with syrup and mandarin oranges, in front of her.

    2001, yumeko, Sphere, Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 73

    Konjac has been used to make noodles (shiritaki noodles) and heat-stable gels such as mitsumame, a fruit dessert.

    2003, Robert Ronzio with Kennedy Associates, The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health (Facts On File Library of Health and Living), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Facts On File, Inc., →ISBN, page 382, column 1

    Cream mitsumame ($4.99) contains ice cream and a Japanese-style canned fruit cocktail with a few beans in sugar syrup.

    2005 August 26, Helen Wu, tgif (The Honolulu Advertiser), page 22, columns 4–5

    Desserts include mitsumame ($6.50) — resilient cubes of unflavoured gelatin with vanilla ice cream and fruit cocktail — as well as a crème brûlée trio ($9).

    2005 November 16, Judy Gerstel, “Less is more shouldn’t apply to the servers”, in Toronto Star, page C5, column 2

    In Asia, agar is used in many traditional dishes, such as red bean jelly, tokoroten noodles and mitsumame.

    2010, Stefan Gates, Stefan Gates on E Numbers, Octopus Publishing Group, →ISBN

Origin

  1. Japaneseみつまめ
  2. Englishmitsumame

From Japanese みつまめ (mitsumame).

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mitsumame. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mitsumame

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“mitsumame.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mitsumame. Accessed November 4, 2026.

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