Product information
About
A 180 g pouch of grapefruit jelly you drink through the spout rather than spoon. It tastes clean and properly of grapefruit: lightly sweet, with real citrus bitterness rather than a flattened sweet version of it. Most Japanese reviewers call it refreshing; a few can't get on with the bitterness. This is the green pouch in Morinaga's in Jelly range.
On the pack: inゼリー マルチビタミン (in zerii maruchi bitamin). Green and white, with a red flash in the corner. Five of these pouches look almost identical side by side, so check the word on the front.
What you're getting
- Grapefruit that tastes like grapefruit. The verdict Japanese reviewers reach most often is that it is not too sweet: clean, light, faintly bitter the way the fruit is.
- It isn't a firm jelly, so it slides down rather than sits. No review we read complains about the texture, and one drinker mentions being able to get it down while lying down.
- The thing worth knowing before you buy: there is a near-identical yellow pouch that is a different product, that one is pineapple and is sweetened with sucralose and acesulfame K. This green one has no artificial sweetener in it at all. Same brand, same shelf, easy mistake.
- Where it landed when someone tested it properly: third in the vitamin category of LDK magazine's 2025 jelly-drink ranking, rated A. The category winner beat it by having no bitterness at all, which tells you exactly what kind of drink this is.
- The honest caveat: grapefruit is a dividing fruit and this one does not hide it. One Japanese reviewer who dislikes citrus bitterness says they would pick another flavour if there were one. If citrus bitterness is not your thing, start somewhere else.
- Allergens: Morinaga declares none of Japan's twenty-eight named allergen categories in this product, gelatine included. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.
If you're deciding between pouches, the range runs to five that look much alike: blue is the plain Energy one, purple is the mineral one with no vitamins in it at all, teal is a glucose one flavoured like ramune sweets, yellow is the pineapple one, and this green one carries the vitamins.
Ingredients
High-fructose glucose syrup (made in Japan), grapefruit juice, sugar
acidulant, flavouring, calcium lactate, gelling agent (thickening polysaccharides), vitamin C, potassium chloride, niacin, calcium pantothenate, emulsifier, vitamin E, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin A, vitamin B6, folic acid, biotin, vitamin D, vitamin B12.
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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None declared — the ingredient list names no allergen.
- Dietary
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- Gelatine-free
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
- Morinaga · Tokyo
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One pouch: 180 g
Our guide
How to eat it
Good to know
- Chill it properly before you drink it: cold, it goes down more easily and tastes less sweet.
- If you would rather not drink it, tip it into a bowl and eat it with a spoon.
- Some people freeze it and carry it, so it thaws through a hot morning. Morinaga says freezing leaves the nutrition broadly intact but ruins the jelly texture, which does not come back when it thaws, so do it only if a sorbet is what you actually want.
- Keep it out of direct sunlight and away from heat. It is built for the cupboard, though the fridge is where it tastes best.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
A clean grapefruit flavour, neither too sweet nor too sour — easy to drink and I like it.
さっぱりとしたグレープフルーツ味で、甘すぎず酸っぱすぎず飲みやすくて気に入っています
from monolog, a Japanese review site
- What they grumble about
I'm not good with citrus bitterness, so if another flavour were available I wouldn't pick this one.
柑橘の苦味は得意じゃない私は他の味があったら選ばない
from mognavi, a Japanese food and drink review site
- What they like
It goes down nicely.
喉越しがいいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
At room temperature it isn't very nice, so I always chill it well before drinking.
常温だとあんまりおいしくないので、必ず良く冷やしてから飲んでます。
from monolog
- What they like
I'm glad the grapefruit one has no artificial sweetener in it.
グレープフルーツは人工甘味料が入ってなくて嬉しいです
from monolog
- What they grumble about
It's a clean flavour, but my family say it doesn't taste good… it's a matter of taste, I suppose.
さっぱり味なのですが家族は美味しくないって‥好みの問題ですね。
from monolog
- What they like
A touch of acidity and sweetness — nicely judged. I freeze it and take it with me.
やや酸味と甘味があって程良い味です。冷凍して持って行っています。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
It's cheap, and the flavour feels thin to match.
安い分味が薄く感じる。
from monolog
- What they like
Even straight out of bed it goes right down, and it tastes good too.
寝起きでもスッと入るし、味も美味しい
from monolog
- Good to know
I mostly buy the blue Energy one and this one.
青のエネルギーとこちらを買うことが多いです
from monolog
- What they like
I drink one now and then when I've no appetite. It's clean-tasting and easy to get down.
食欲がない時にたまに飲んでいます。さっぱりしていて、飲みやすいです。
from monolog
- What they grumble about
I wish they'd change the flavour up a bit more.
もう少し味を変えてほしい
from monolog
- What they like
I buy it whenever I get a mouth ulcer or come down with a cold.
口内炎が出来たとき、風邪ひいたときに良く購入します
from monolog
- What they like
It's my child's favourite. It costs more than other jelly drinks, but they say it keeps them full and tastes good without being too sweet.
子供のお気に入りです。他のゼリー飲料より高いけど、腹持ちが良く、味も甘過ぎたりしなくて美味しいそうです。
from monolog
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The maker
Where it comes from
- Morinaga
- Tokyo
- Founded 1899
Morinaga has been making sweets since 1899: the company was founded on 15 August that year, and its head office is in Tokyo. The first in Jelly pouch shipped on 1 February 1994 under the name Weider in Jelly; the brand dropped that name in March 2018 and became simply in Jelly.
This grapefruit pouch was quietly reworked in November 2024. The vitamin count went from eleven to twelve, the addition was biotin, and the additive declaration changed with it. Older Japanese listings still describe the eleven-vitamin recipe, which is one reason the range is harder to read than it looks.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: morinaga.co.jp (opens in a new tab)
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