Glico Pretz Osatsu Sweet Potato Pretzel Sticks — 62g

Thin pretzel sticks with sweet potato, butter and brown sugar: the sweet one in a range that's otherwise salty. Don't read that as a dessert biscuit: the word Japanese buyers use for it is amajoppai, sweet-and-salty, and most of them describe the salt arriving first and the sweetness coming up as you chew. If you want something sweet that isn't chocolate and isn't sickly, this is it.

On the pack: プリッツ＜おさつ＞ (purittsu, osatsu). Osatsu is an everyday word for sweet potato.

What you're getting

• Sweet and salty, in that order: salt on the outside, then a gentle sweetness. How sweet it lands is itself contested: slightly more Japanese reviewers call it too sweet than call it restrained, so treat "gentle" as the middle of a real spread. It is the least salty box we sell, 0.84 g of salt per 100 g against the green box's 1.41, and the richest, which is exactly what the ingredients say: sweetened condensed milk, butter and brown sugar are all in there alongside the sweet potato.
• Sweet potato is a dessert flavour in Japan: which takes some adjusting to if you know it as a roast vegetable. The Japanese comparison isn't a baked sweet potato either; people reach for sweet-potato cake, the small confectionery kind.
• Texture: the same light, dry snap as the rest of the range. One reviewer puts the distinction plainly: it's a Pretz, so it's crisp, unlike Pocky.
• Opinion splits on how strong it is: most people say it genuinely tastes of sweet potato, a few say the aroma reads a bit manufactured, and a few say it's too faint to find in a single stick. All three camps are well represented.
• It's a limited run: Glico puts it out each year and it goes again; the 2026 run landed in early August. Japanese buyers stock up while it's on the shelf, which tells you something about both the product and the supply. If it's listed on this page we have it; once our stock goes there's no resupply until the next run.
• Allergens: contains milk and wheat. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.

Two things before you order. This is not Pocky and there's no chocolate on it, same maker, same stick, no coating. And if you came to Pretz for the salty green box, be aware this is a genuine change of direction: one Japanese reviewer, looking at the shelf, reckoned most people don't actually want sweetness from a Pretz. Plenty disagree, but it's a fair warning.