Ghana (Katakana: ガーナ, Korean: 가나) is a brand of chocolate manufactured by the Korean company Lotte Confectionery since 1964 and South Korea since 1975. Its name is a homage to the country Ghana, one of the world's largest exporters of cocoa beans from which chocolate is made. The confectionery has a creamy texture, and is a popular brand in both South Korea and Japan.
Japan's Ghana chocolate is made by Lotte in Japan and unlike Korea's Ghana chocolate, it uses cocoa butter by using the microglind method. Like Korea, the Japanese Ghana chocolate is written as 'Ghana' in English. Ghana has four kinds of chocolate wrapped in red, black, white and beige.
Selected varieties
- Ghana cacao milk chocolate
- Ghana black excellent
- Ghana excellent bite size
- Ghana black
- Ghana toppo
- Ghana mild cacao mild chocolate
- Ghana Air (Air light)
Notable endorsers
- Lee Mi-yeon (Korea, 1980s)
- Masami Nagasawa
- Emi Takei
- Mao Asada, Yuzuru Hanyu, Tao Tsuchiya, Airi Matsui (Japan, 2014)
- Miwa Yoshida
- Kyōko Koizumi
- Ei Morisako
- Kyoko Fukada
- Aya Ueto
- Jo Bo-ah (Korea, 2012)
- Lee Hye-ri (Korea, 2016)
- Park Bo-gum (Korea, 2017), the brand's first Korean male endorser
- Jun Ji-hyun (Korea, 2021)
See also
References
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