Product information
About
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: a salted, buttery stick with the sweet potato running through it. 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, not just sweet: the salt is there, but lightly. It is the least salty of our four Pretz, 0.84 g of salt per 100 g against Umami Salada's 1.41, and the richest, with sweetened condensed milk, butter and brown sugar 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. Being a Pretz, it's crisp, unlike Pocky.
- Opinion splits on how sweet and how strong it is: slightly more Japanese reviewers call it too sweet than call it restrained. On the flavour, 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.
- 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. 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 salted Umami Salada, the 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.
Ingredients
Wheat flour (domestic), vegetable oils and fats, sugar, sweetened condensed milk, shortening, sweet potato powder, yeast, butter, brown sugar, salt
modified starch, flavouring, seasoning (inorganic salts), gardenia colour, sweetener (stevia extract). Contains milk and wheat.
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
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
- Glico · Osaka
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One box: 62 g, as two sealed 31 g inner packs — Glico does not publish a stick count
Our guide
How to eat it
Good to know
- Open one inner pack, not both. The box holds two sealed 31 g bags, each a single sitting's worth, so the second stays sealed for another day.
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
The sweet-potato sweetness and the salt level are just right — I love it.
さつまいもの甘みと塩加減がちょうど良くて大好きです。
mentioned in 12 of 111 reviews we readfrom monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they like
The sweet-saltiness is addictive — so good I couldn't stop.
甘じょっぱさが癖になり手が止まらなくなるくらい美味しかったです。
from monolog
- What they like
There are two bags inside, and it was so good I ate them anyway.
中に二袋入っていてあまりの美味しさに食べてしまいました。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Sweet — sweet-potato I suppose, but sweet. With no salt it reads even sweeter.
甘い、お札なのかまあ甘い。塩味が無い分、余計に甘く感じます。
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they like
The salt hits first, then a gentle sweetness as you chew.
口に入れると塩味が効いていて噛むと優しい甘さ。
from monolog
- What they like
Sweet-and-salty, but properly sweet-potato.
甘じょっぱいけど、ちゃんと、おさつの味。
from mognavi
- What they like
You get sweet-potato sweetness and buttery richness — a bag disappears in no time.
さつまいもの甘さとバターのコクが感じられてあっという間に1袋食べてしまいます
mentioned in 2 of 111 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
Restrained sweetness, delicious. I'll buy it again.
甘さ控え目で美味しいです。又、購入させて頂きます。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
The sweet-potato flavour is thin — one stick isn't enough to taste it.
おさつの味が薄くて、1本食べただけじゃさつまいもを感じられない。
mentioned in 3 of 111 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
The sweetness isn't cloying — easy to eat.
さつまいもの甘さがしつこくなくて食べやすい
from monolog
- What they like
The potato flavour is so definite it startled me. Like a sweet-potato cake turned into a Pretz.
イモの味がしっかりするので、一口食べてビックリしました。スイートポテトが、プリッツになったって感じ。
from monolog
- What they like
Proper sweet-potato sweetness and that fluffy-baked quality — really good!
しっかりさつまいもの甘みやホクホク感があって凄く美味しかったです！
mentioned in 8 of 111 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they grumble about
It has an artificial sweet-potato aroma, like Glico's sweet-potato crisps (Osatsu Doki).
おさつどきっのような人工的なさつまいもの香りがします。
from monolog
- What they like
No heavy flavouring — just a gentle sweetness.
極端な香料感もなく優しい甘さ
from mognavi
- What they like
Being a Pretz, it's crisp — unlike Pocky.
プリッツだから、ポッキーと違ってサクサク。
from mognavi
- What they like
It's a snack but not greasy — it vanished immediately.
スナックだけど油っぽさが少なくてすぐ無くなった
from mognavi
- What they like
When I spot it in store I think, "autumn's here."
店頭で見つけると「秋が来たなぁ」と思います。
mentioned in 31 of 111 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
You have to buy it while it's there or it'll be gone from the shelves.
これはあるうちに購入しないと店頭になくなってしまう
from monolog
- What they grumble about
It made me think most people don't want sweetness from a Pretz.
プリッツに甘さを求めてない人の方が多いのかなと、思った光景でした。
from monolog
Real quotes from the review sites named on the cards. We show no star rating from those sites.
The maker
Where it comes from
- Glico
- Osaka
Glico has been in Osaka since 1922, and Pretz is one of its oldest lines. The first box went on sale in Hiroshima in April 1962, sold as something to eat with a beer. It didn't work: children bought it instead, so the year after, Glico relaunched it as a snack for them and it sold out again and again.
The sweet potato one is a limited run that comes back each year, and Glico makes it with Japanese-grown sweet potato. It is the odd one out in a range built on salt, and the range is old enough that it can afford one.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: glico.com (opens in a new tab)
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