Product information
About
Thin pretzel sticks with sharp lemon, salt and black pepper. Glico's summer-only Pretz. It's properly sour: sour enough that one reviewer's first reaction was to say so out loud on the first stick. If you like lemon pepper and you want a snack with some acid in it rather than a sweet one, this is the interesting box in the range.
On the pack: プリッツ＜旨塩レモン＞ペッパー仕立て (purittsu, uma-shio remon, roughly "savoury-salt lemon").
What you're getting
- Sharp, salty, then pepper: the lemon arrives first and hardest, salt underneath it, and the black pepper turns up late as a warm note rather than heat. Nobody finds it hot. A few people wish the pepper were louder.
- It is the saltiest Pretz we sell: about half again as salty as the standard green box, gram for gram. That's the product working as named, but it's worth knowing before you open it.
- Opinion splits on the lemon: most people find it fresh. A few find it tastes more like lemon flavouring than fruit. Both camps are real and you may land in either.
- Summer only: Glico brings it back each year around April and it disappears again. It isn't restocked in between, so when it's gone it's gone until the next run.
- Two sealed packs inside the box: 23.5 g each. These are smaller inner packs than the rest of the range, and a couple of buyers say so.
- Allergens: contains wheat and soy. No milk, which is unusual for this range. 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 the sourness is genuinely assertive: several people say a whole pack in one go is hard work, which is part of why the box comes split in two. If you are after something mild, the plain salted one, Pretz Umami Salada, the green box, is the one.
Ingredients
The maker's ingredient list, translated from the Japanese pack. Anything after the break is an additive — the Japanese label lists those separately.
Wheat flour (domestic), vegetable oils and fats, sugar, shortening, dried potato, yeast, salt, soy sauce seasoning, black pepper, lemon juice powder, yeast extract powder
modified starch, seasoning (amino acids etc.), acidulant, flavouring, emulsifier. Contains wheat and soy.
The printed label on the pack is always the authority on ingredients and allergens, not this page — please read it in full before you rely on our summary. If you are unsure about an ingredient, contact us.
Allergens
The maker declares:
- Allergens
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- Wheat
- Soy
The printed label on the pack is always the authority on ingredients and allergens, not this page — please read it in full before you rely on our summary. If you are unsure about an ingredient, contact us.
Details
- Maker
- Glico
- Prefecture
- Osaka
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One box: 47 g, as two sealed 23.5 g inner packs
Our guide
How to eat it
- Eat one inner pack, not both. The sourness builds, and several people say a whole box in one go is hard going: the seal is there for a reason.
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
Tastes like lemon dressing. Decent salt, punchy acidity — good for summer.
レモンドレッシングの味やね。なかなかの塩味でパンチのある酸味、夏にいいね。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
First bite, the instant I ate it I went "sooour!"
一口目、食べた瞬間「すっぱぁあ！」ってなった。
from monolog
- What they like
The salt has a sharp bite, the lemon is zingy — sour-delicious.
塩がピりっと効いててレモンのキュンとした味で酸っぱウマ。
from mognavi
- What they like
A taste made for summer! Strong lemon acidity and solid saltiness.
夏にぴったりの味！レモンの酸味強め、塩味もしっかりしてます。
mentioned in 6 of 63 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they grumble about
The lemon acidity hits hard, my kind of taste — though the salt does feel quite heavy.
レモンの酸味がガツンと効いていて好みの味。かなり塩が濃い感じはしますが。
mentioned in 7 of 63 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
Sour and delicious. I liked it enough to want it made a regular line.
酸っぱくて美味しい。レギュラー化してほしいくらい気に入りました。
from monolog
- What they like
Sour and delicious. I've repurchased it many times.
すっぱくておいしいです。何回もリピしてます。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The contrived lemon flavouring is disappointing.
わざとらしいレモンの香料がイマイチ。
mentioned in 3 of 63 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
My son, who supposedly dislikes lemon, asked for one to try and then ate about half the bag.
レモン苦手なはずの息子が、１本ちょうだいと味見して、そのまま半分くらい食べられてしまいました。
from monolog
- What they like
Nice that the salt/powder doesn't fall off and make a mess.
塩？粉？が落ちないと汚れなくて嬉しいなぁ。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
It's pretty salty.
結構しょっぱいです
from monolog
- What they like
The moment I opened the bag there was a lemon scent, and the taste was good too!
袋を開けたとたんにレモンの香りがして、味も美味しかったです！
from monolog
- What they like
First time eating it — the salt and lemon are just right, delicious.
初めて食べましたが塩とレモンがちょうどいい感じで美味しいです
from monolog
- What they grumble about
There's a custard-ish sweetness to it too. I don't want that sweetness.
カスタードっぽい甘さもあります。その甘さがいらない
from monolog
- What they like
That crisp, snappy texture is unstoppable too.
ポリポリの小気味よい食感も止まりません。
from mognavi
Real quotes from Japanese review sites (mognavi, monolog), translated by us. 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.
Salty Lemon is one of the seasonals that sit around that core range.
Often bought together
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Glico Pretz Salty Lemon Pepper Pretzel Sticks — 47g
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