Product information
About
Thick, ridged potato chips with cheese-flavoured flakes melted onto them. Calbee drops the cheese on the instant the chips leave the fryer, so it fuses into the surface instead of dusting it. It leads on cheese, with a savoury-sweet tomato and oregano note and a little warmth behind it, not the pepperoni-pizza flavour the name suggests. Buy it if most cheese chips taste too faint to you; if you want a light chip to graze on, this is the wrong bag.
ピザポテト: "piza poteto". The bag with the Italian flag stripe across the top.
What you're getting
- You can see the cheese on the chip: it is seasoned twice, a pizza-flavoured powder first, then cheese-flavoured flakes part-melted into the surface. Expect it rich and heavy; that is the design, not an accident.
- Ridged and thick-cut: a deep crunch, with grooves built to hold more cheese. More substantial than a standard potato chip, and nowhere near as hard as Calbee's Kataage chips, its other range, fried long and slow until the chip itself dries out.
- There is meat in it: the seasoning is built on beef powder and little salami-style pieces, with chicken and gelatine derivatives as well. That catches most people out on a potato chip.
- It is a small bag: 60 g is about a third of an Australian chip bag. That is the Japanese size, not a short fill.
- The cheese lands unevenly: some chips carry a thick patch, some almost none. That is how it is topped, and it is not a fault.
- Allergens: contains milk, wheat and soy; the milk is in the cheese flakes and powder. Contains apple. Australian labels don't have to flag apple as an allergen. May contain egg, prawn and crab, from shared equipment. Our list follows the maker's own Japanese label.
- Also on the label: the beef, pork, chicken and gelatine in the ingredients are declared allergens in Japan and ordinary ingredients here.
Ingredients
Potato (Japanese or American), vegetable oil, cheese-flavour flakes, sugar, glucose, salt, garlic powder, hydrolysed protein (contains soy), powdered fat, beef powder (contains wheat, chicken, gelatine), vegetable extract powder, cheese powder, meat-flavour seasoning, red chilli, parsley, salami-style chips (contains pork), beef extract powder, oregano, tomato powder
seasoning (amino acids etc.), flavouring (apple-derived), colours (carotenoid, caramel, red koji), emulsifier, acidity regulator, spice extract, smoke flavouring, sweetener (stevia)
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
- Wheat
- Soy
- Apple
- May contain
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- Egg
- Prawn
- Crab
Not ingredients — these are made or handled on the same equipment as this product, so traces are possible. We list every shared-equipment allergen stated on the pack or by the maker.
- Dietary notes
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The seasoning is built on beef powder and little salami-style pieces, with chicken and gelatine derivatives as well. That is three meats, plus gelatine, in a potato chip, which catches most people out. It is not vegetarian, halal or kosher.
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.
Nutrition
| Per bag (60 g) | Per 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 1385 kJ (331 kcal) | 2308 kJ (552 kcal) |
| Protein | 3.3 g | 5.5 g |
| Fat | 20.8 g | 34.7 g |
| Carbohydrate | 32.7 g | 54.5 g |
| Sodium | 315 mg | 525 mg |
From the Japanese pack's nutrition panel, marked estimated (推定値) by the maker — not the Australian nutrition information panel. The Japanese pack gives no saturated fat or sugars figure. The per-100 g column, the kJ figures and sodium (from the pack's salt equivalent, 食塩相当量, ÷ 2.54) are our calculation.
Details
- Maker
- Calbee · Tokyo
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One 60 g bag, single serve
Our guide
How to eat it
Good to know
- Have something fizzy beside you. It is rich and salty, and a beer or a cola cuts through it.
- Don't judge it on the first chip. The cheese is spread unevenly through the bag: a bare chip early, and the next handful can be thick with it.
- Don't microwave them to re-melt the cheese. There is a tip going round about doing that, and Calbee's own advice is not to: a snack this low in moisture and high in oil can smoke or catch fire.
- It leaves an aftertaste, and a smell on your breath, that hangs about. Worth knowing if you are eating them before you see anyone.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
What do the numbers mean?
Counts of how many reviews mentioned each thing, not a score. One review can mention several. Every quote is our translation, with the original Japanese beneath it.
- What they like
Slightly thick chips with a tomato-and-spice pizza flavour and a rich cheesiness. The seasoning is strong, so it's properly filling and tasty — a very satisfying snack.
やや厚みのあるチップスでトマト・スパイスのピザの風味に濃厚なチーズ感があって、濃い味付けなのでしっかりした食べ応えと美味しさがあって満足感が高い商品でした。
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they grumble about
It's tasty, but my impression is there's little in it for the size of the bag.
美味しいですが、袋に対して量が少ないという印象です。
mentioned in 15 of 95 reviews we readfrom monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they like
I love that crunchy zaku-zaku texture too, it's genuinely delicious!
ザクザク食感もホント美味しくて好き!
from monolog
- What they like
Other companies put out pizza-flavour chips, but they're still no match for the real Pizza Potato!
他社でピザ味のポテチが出ていますが、やっぱり本物のピザポテトには敵いませんね!
from monolog
- What they like
Ridged potato that's neither too thin nor too thick, topped here and there with soft-textured cheese — and you can really taste the cheese.
薄すぎず厚すぎないギザギザのポテトに、所々やわらかい食感のチーズがトッピングされていますが、チーズの味がしっかり感じられます。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
It's a snack I love, but this bag was a dud. There was hardly any cheese on it at all. Really disappointing.
大好きなお菓子なのに今回はハズレです。 チーズがほとんど ついていませんでした すごく がっかりです
mentioned in 4 of 95 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
When you open it, it smells of real pizza.
開封すると、本物のピザ🍕の香りがします🎵
from mognavi
- What they like
A snack that goes with fizzy drinks and beer.
炭酸やビールに合うお菓子。
mentioned in 3 of 95 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
One bite and I understood why it's so popular… there's no arguing with how delicious it is!!!
一口食べた瞬間にこれは人気なわけだ、、と納得しかない美味しさ！！！
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
It's unmistakably delicious, but the aftertaste and the breath bother me, so I have to eat it with my later schedule in mind.
間違いない美味しさですが、後味と口臭が気になる為、後のスケジュールを考えながら食べないと。
mentioned in 7 of 85 reviews we readfrom mognavi
- What they like
It's that sinful flavour you occasionally crave.
たまに食べたくなる背徳感の味です。。
from monolog
- What they like
Reliably tasty! I couldn't stop my hand and finished it in no time.
安定の旨さ！手が止まらなくてあっという間に食べきった。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
A lot of them were broken, which was a shame.
割れている物が多くて残念でした。
mentioned in 1 of 95 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
Actually it's my first time with Pizza Potato. The ridged crisps are properly crunchy.
実はピザポテトって初めて。ギザギザポテチはざくざく。
from mognavi
- What they like
I've been buying it for over 15 years, since high school.
高校の頃から15年以上買ってます。
from monolog
- What they like
When I want something junky — something strongly flavoured — this is often what I pick.
ジャンクなもの(味が濃い物)が食べたい時によくこちらをセレクトします。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
There's less spice and cheese than there used to be, and a lot of hard flavourless chips, so it's underwhelming.
昔よりスパイスとチーズの量が減って味のない硬いポテトが多いのでいまいち
mentioned in 4 of 95 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
With its nicely judged thickness and satisfying bite, this Pizza Potato goes well with drinks and you can taste the rich depth of the cheese.
こちらの程良い厚みで食べ応えがあるピザポテトはお酒にもよく合い、チーズの濃厚なコクも感じられます。
from best-oishi
Real quotes from the review sites named on the cards. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Calbee
- Tokyo
Pizza Potato came out of Japan's early-1990s craze for home-delivery pizza: Calbee's R&D director, Eisaburo Endo, launched it nationwide in September 1992, and when demand outran the line he stood at the Ibaraki plant scooping the cheese onto the chips by hand, seven or eight hours a day. It has been on sale ever since, through fifteen recipes: the current one since November 2024.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: calbee.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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