Made byAjinomoto AGFGunma and Mie, Japan
AGF Blendy Stick Cafe Au Lait Barely Sweet 8 x 8g
An instant café au lait powder in eight single-cup sticks that you stir into hot water, and it tastes of mild coffee and milk with barely any sweetness.
Regular price $6.37AUD
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Why we say this
Blendy Stick, the range this café au lait belongs to, was the top brand by sales value and cups in Japan's single-serve stick-drink market every year from August 2010 to July 2026 (AGF, from Intage, a Japanese retail sales tracker).
Product information
About
An instant café au lait powder in eight single-cup sticks that you stir into hot water, and it tastes of mild coffee and milk with barely any sweetness. Buy it if you take your coffee white, don't like it sweet and want one in a minute at your desk; if you want a sweet latte or a strong coffee, this is the wrong product.
On the pack: カフェオレ 甘さなし (ka-feh-oh-reh a-ma-sa na-shi, "café au lait, no sweetness"), under the Blendy stick logo.
What you're getting
- The faint sweetness comes from milk sugar, the second ingredient, so it is not sugar-free.
- The milkiness comes from creamer powder and skim milk powder, not fresh milk.
- The coffee is mild rather than strong.
- It is an ordinary caffeinated coffee, not a decaf: the maker gives 51 mg of caffeine per stick.
- Allergens: milk. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
To make it iced, dissolve the stick in about 90 mL of hot water before you add the ice; it is not one of the sticks made to stir straight into cold milk.
Ingredients
Creaming powder (contains milk) (made in Japan), lactose, instant coffee, skim milk powder
pH regulator, milk protein, flavouring (milk-derived), emulsifier, seasoning (amino acids etc.), silicon dioxide.
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Allergens
- Contains
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- Milk
For your safety, please check both the information on this page and the printed label on the pack. If anything is unclear or the information differs, please contact us before consuming the product.
Details
- Maker
- Ajinomoto AGF · Gunma and Mie
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One box: 64 g, eight sticks of 8 g
Our guide
How to eat it
- For a hot café au lait, tip one stick into a mug.
- Pour in about 180 mL of hot water.
- Stir until no powder is left floating on top.
Good to know
- For an iced one, stir the stick into about 90 mL of hot water, then add five or six ice cubes and stir until cold.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
A café au lait with no sweetness is hard to find, so it's precious.
甘さなしのカフェオレはなかなかないので、貴重。
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they grumble about
It certainly isn't sweet, but the taste was thin and not to my liking.
確かに甘くないですが、味が薄く好みではありませんでした。
from monolog
- What they like
I usually drink it with sweet snacks, so a café au lait with no sweetness is welcome.
甘いおやつといっしょに飲むことが多いので、甘さのないカフェオレはありがたいです。
from monolog
- What they like
I don't want sugar but I do want milk, so it's always this one.
砂糖は要らないけどミルクは欲しいのでいつもコレです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Hmm, the smell is nice, but the coffee taste is on the weak side.
うーん、香りはいいけどコーヒー感は薄めかな💦
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they like
I don't need sweetness but I want it creamy, so this is exactly right.
甘さは必要ないけれどクリーム感が欲しいのでこの製品は正にピッタリです。
from monolog
- What they like
There's no sweetness, but it's mild and very easy to drink.
甘さはないけどマイルドでとても飲みやすいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I noticed an odd harshness, separate from the coffee's bitterness, and didn't much like it.
コーヒーの苦味とはまた別の独特なエグみを感じてしまい私はちょっと苦手でした💦
from mognavi
- What they like
Not sweet, and even with a little more hot water it didn't go thin; it was good.
甘くなく、お湯を少し多めに入れても薄くなく、美味しかった。
from monolog
- What they like
This one really has no sweetness at all.
これは本当に甘さが全くない。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
But to me, something feels missing.
だけど私には何か物足りなさを感じる。
from monolog
- Mixed feelings
It's sold as "no sweetness", yet it does seem to have a little sweetness.
甘さなしではあるが甘みはあるように感じられる。
from monolog
- What they like
Made with milk instead of water, it gets even richer and tastier.
牛乳で割ると更に濃厚になって美味しいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
With no sweetness, I can't gulp it down the way I do Nescafé's sweet foamy latte sticks.
甘さがないからふわラテみたいにゴクゴク行けない。
- What they like
It costs more than a jar of instant, but a jar's powder goes damp in summer before you finish it and takes up space, so these are welcome.
瓶のインスタントより割高ですが夏場など飲み切る前に粉が湿気たり場所もとるのでこういうのはありがたいです。
from monolog
- What they like
I've tried other lower-calorie "lightly sweetened" ones, but they're too sweet to finish a box, so I always come back.
こちらの商品よりカロリーが低い他の微糖タイプのものを買ってみたりしても、甘くて一箱飲みきれず結局戻ります。
from monolog
- What they like
I dislike the harshness of instant black coffee, but this café au lait tastes naturally milky, the coffee isn't harsh, and it's easy to drink.
インスタントのブラックコーヒーは、それ特有の癖・渋みがあって苦手なのですが、こちらのカフェオレは自然なミルク感と癖の無いコーヒー感で飲みやすいです。
from mognavi
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The maker
Where it comes from
- Ajinomoto AGF
- Gunma and Mie
Ajinomoto AGF is the coffee and drinks company of the Ajinomoto group, and Blendy Stick is its range of single-cup drink sticks. This one is made at its plants in Gunma and Mie.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: agf.ajinomoto.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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