RichardHosking:A Dictionary of Japanese Food: Ingredients & Culture.Tuttle Publishing,14.01.2014,s.77. ISBN978-1-4629-0343-6. Cytat: Konpeitō コンペイトー 金平糖 comfit. A sugar candy introduced by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, one kind of higashi. It is a small toffee sphere (5 mm in diameter) with a pimply surface, made from sugar, water, and flour in a variety of colours. Originally there was a sesame seed in the middle, later a poppy seed, but nowadays no seed at all. The word comfit derives from the Portuguese confeito..(ang.).
