Product information
About
Thin, dry pretzel sticks, salted, with a savoury stock-like depth behind the salt. This is the green box: the standard Pretz, the one Japanese buyers pick when you ask them which flavour they'd choose. If you want the plain one to start with rather than a novelty flavour, this is it.
On the pack: プリッツ＜旨サラダ＞ (purittsu, uma-salada). Note the name before you order.
What you're getting
- "Salada" is the name of the seasoning: worth knowing before it arrives. In Japanese confectionery, salada is a trade term for salad oil plus salt, and that is what is on the stick. There is no salad in it, and Japanese shoppers have been asking why it's called that since at least 2011.
- What it tastes of: salt first, then something rounder underneath; the "umami" in the name is that savoury depth. The seasoning is built on a savoury bouillon, and people notice that depth without being told it's there. The salt is what people single out, and usually as well judged rather than strong. It does come off on your fingers a little, and opinion is genuinely split on whether that's a problem.
- Texture: a light, dry snap. Thin enough to break cleanly rather than crunch hard, and it clears the mouth quickly.
- It doesn't melt: no chocolate on it. That's a genuine difference from Pocky if you're ordering through an Australian summer, and Japanese buyers bring it up as a reason to take it out with them.
- Two sealed packs inside the box: 32 g each. One is a snack; the seal is what keeps the second one for tomorrow.
- Allergens: contains milk and wheat. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
Two things to know before you order. This is not Pocky and there's no chocolate on it, same company, same stick, and one buyer who traded down from Pocky to save money said plainly that it didn't satisfy without the coating, which is fair enough. And this is the current standard box, not an old recipe sitting in a warehouse, but long-time buyers say the seasoning has been dialled back over the years, so if you remember it as saltier and more intense, several people agree with you.
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, shortening, sugar, starch, dried potato, vegetable paste and bouillon mix, yeast, wheat protein, salt, sake lees, consommé seasoning, flavoured oil, pepper
seasoning (inorganic salts etc.), modified starch, emulsifier, flavouring, acidulant. Contains milk and wheat.
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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- Milk
- Wheat
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: 64 g, as two sealed 32 g inner packs
Our guide
How to eat it
- Have it with a cold beer. Pretz was invented as a beer snack in 1962, and adults in Japan still use it that way.
- Try chikuwa Pretz: push two or three sticks into a chikuwa fish-cake tube and eat it with mayonnaise. It went round Japan in 2023 and the chikuwa maker itself named this flavour as the best match. You'll need a Japanese grocer for the chikuwa; it isn't a supermarket item here.
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
Pretz is Pretz. This isn't just salt. It's good salt.
プリッツはプリッツだ。ただの塩ではない。うまい塩だ。
from mognavi
- What they like
That salt balance and the chicken-bouillon flavour are genuinely habit-forming.
この塩加減とチキンブイヨンの味ってほんとクセになる美味しさ。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
It's salt flavour rather than salada flavour, really…
サラダ風味というより塩味ですね…
mentioned in 10 of 88 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
The salt level is just right — good for taking the edge off hunger.
塩味加減もちょうどよく、小腹満たしにいいですね。
mentioned in 22 of 88 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they like
The flavour is solid and yet somehow you never tire of it, right down to the last stick.
味がしっかりめなのに何故か最後の1本まで飽きずに食べられる。
from monolog
- What they like
If it weren't split into two bags I'd overeat, so I'm grateful for it.
２袋に分かれていないと食べすぎてしまうのでありがたいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
Today's Pretz feels a bit lacking.
今のプリッツはちょっと物足りない。
from monolog
- What they like
It doesn't mess up your hands and doesn't melt, so it's just right for going out.
手が汚れにくくて溶けにくいので出掛けるときに丁度良いです。
from monolog
- What they like
No chocolate on it, so no worrying about it melting all year round.
チョコレートがついてないから一年中溶ける心配もいりませんね。
from mognavi
- What they like
It was the standard school-excursion snack when I was in primary school, so it's nostalgic.
小学生の時の遠足の定番おやつだったので懐かしいです。
mentioned in 8 of 88 reviews we readfrom monolog
- What they grumble about
I tried making do with this cheaper one since plain Pocky is dear, but without a chocolate coating it doesn't satisfy.
シンプルなポッキーは高いのでこちらの安いので我慢しようとしたけどチョコが塗ってないと物足りない
from monolog
- What they like
By far my favourite in the PRETZ range.
PRETZシリーズの中で断トツに好き。
from monolog
- What they like
If you really taste carefully, you can faintly sense a vegetable note too.
よーく味わうと、ほのかにお野菜の風味も感じます。
from mognavi
- What they like
There's now this "easy-eat pocket" on the back of the pack — looks handy for sharing.
パッケージ裏のらくたべポケット⁉️ とやらが出来ててシェアして食べる時には便利そうですね。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
The powder does get on your fingers though, so it's not suited to snacking at work.
ただ粉が手につくので、仕事中のおやつには向かないですね。
from monolog
- What they like
I've always wondered "what even is salada flavour?" — but good is good.
昔から思う「サラダ味とはなんぞや？」なんですが、うまいものはうまいです。
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.
The salted one arrived in 1969 and the roast one in 1973, and those two, with the original, became the pillars of the range. This green box is the direct descendant of that 1969 flavour. It picked up the "umami" in its name at a later renewal, and long-time buyers say they can't tell the new one from the old.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: glico.com (opens in a new tab)
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Glico Pretz Umami Salada Salted Pretzel Sticks — 64g
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