About Hongyuan
Hongyuan is a brand of individually wrapped fruit hard candy, sold on Amazon, known for Guava Hard Candy.
Hongyuan in facts
Dates and names from the trademark records and the company's own profile.
- U.S. trademark
- Reg. No. 7963986, registered September 30, 2025USPTO trademark record, checked 5 October 2026
- The mark
- Two Chinese characters in a stylized font, read "Hong Yuan"USPTO trademark record, checked 5 October 2026
- Registered in China
- No. 6075507, December 28, 2009USPTO trademark record, checked 5 October 2026
- In U.S. commerce since
- August 1, 2006first-use date stated in the 2012 U.S. application · USPTO trademark record, checked 5 October 2026
- Trademark owner
- Guangdong Hongyuan Foods Co., LtdUSPTO trademark record, checked 5 October 2026
- Country
- China (Chaozhou, Guangdong)USPTO trademark record, checked 5 October 2026
- Maker founded
- 1994, as Chao'an County Hongyuan Food Co., Ltd., renamed in 2013Company profile, checked 5 October 2026
- Registered for
- Class 30: sweets, cookies, cereal-based snacksUSPTO trademark record, checked 5 October 2026
- Where it is sold
- Amazon, through the Hongyuan brand storechecked 5 October 2026
- Lines
- Classic Series guava, Dakeyi lychee, peach, pineapple and green apple and tangerine peel. See all 7 on sale
- Best-known product
- Guava Hard Candy, 12.3 oz bag
hongyuan.store is an independent shop guide to Hongyuan fruit hard candy: flavors, pack sizes, label facts and buyer reviews.
The candy factory behind the name
Hongyuan is the candy brand of Guangdong Hongyuan Foods Co., Ltd, a factory in Anbu, a town in Chaozhou in the south of China. Its company profile dates the business to 1994 and describes one trade: developing, making and selling candy.
In the United States the brand means one thing first, the green guava hard candy that Asian restaurants hand out with the check. American buyers get the same 350 g bags the factory sells at home. An importer adds an English label to the back.
hongyuan.store is an independent shop guide, not the factory. Our job is to tell the bags apart, work out what one bag costs in each pack, and point you to the brand's store at our retail partner, where you place the order.
The Hongyuan range on sale today
All 7 bags and bundles
The names on the bag
- 宏源The brand: Hongyuan, also written Hong Yuan. These two characters are the registered mark.
- Classic SeriesThe English line on the green guava bag.
- 番石榴Guava. The bag adds 果味糖 (fruit-flavored candy) or 夹心糖, depending on the print run.
- DakeyiThe series name on the lychee, peach, pineapple and green apple bags.
- 陳皮糖Chenpi candy: the tangerine peel bag.
What the public record says
The U.S. trademark office, the USPTO, registered the two-character mark to the company on September 30, 2025, for sweets and other class 30 goods. The filing rests on a Chinese registration from December 28, 2009.
It was not the first try. In 2012 the firm, then called Chaoan Hongyuan Food Co., Ltd., applied for the word HONGYUAN with the characters in red and gave August 1, 2006 as the date the candy first sold in U.S. commerce. That application lapsed in 2014. A New York company, Starway Inc., held the word HONGYUAN for candy from 2011 until its registration was cancelled in 2018.
The company's own profile adds two dates. It opened in 1994 as Chao'an County Hongyuan Food Co., Ltd., and took its present name in 2013. One bag still shows the change: the pineapple bag in the current trio prints the older company name in Chinese.
Hongyuan year by year
- 1994
A candy factory opens in Anbu, a town in Chaozhou, Guangdong, as Chao'an County Hongyuan Food Co., Ltd.
Source: Guangdong Hongyuan Food Co., Ltd., company profile, read 5 October 2026 - 2006
Candy under the Hongyuan name is first sold in the United States, by the date the company later gave the U.S. trademark office.
Source: USPTO, application serial 85754374, read 5 October 2026 - 2009
China registers the two-character mark printed on the bags, No. 6075507.
Source: USPTO, registration 7963986 (foreign registration basis), read 5 October 2026 - 2013
The company takes its present name, Guangdong Hongyuan Food Co., Ltd.
Source: Guangdong Hongyuan Food Co., Ltd., company profile, read 5 October 2026 - 2025
The U.S. trademark office registers the same two characters to the company for sweets, Reg. No. 7963986.
Source: USPTO, registration 7963986, read 5 October 2026
Hongyuan, two quick answers
Who makes Hongyuan candy?
Guangdong Hongyuan Foods Co., Ltd, a candy factory in Chaozhou, China. Its company profile dates the business to 1994, and its name is printed on the bags.
Is Hongyuan candy Chinese or Japanese?
Chinese. The bags say Product of China, and the brand's two-character mark has been registered in China since 2009.