Orihiro Konjac Jelly — Shine Muscat & Orange, 12 Pouches

Twelve squeeze pouches of Japanese konjac jelly, six shine muscat and six orange. It is firm and springy rather than wobbly, and you chew it rather than swallow it. Buy it if you want a fruit snack with real bite that survives a hot day in a bag; if you want a low-calorie one, this is the wrong pack, its low-calorie twin is the white peach and Kyoho grape pack.

On the pack: ぷるんと蒟蒻ゼリー シャインマスカット＋オレンジ. Konjac: konnyaku in Japanese, is the root vegetable the jelly is set with instead of gelatine. Shine Muscat is Japan's premium seedless green grape.

What you're getting

• Taste: The muscat side is the sweeter one. The orange is tarter, though the fruit in it is faint.
• Texture: Firm and bouncy, nearer a fruit gummy than a set jelly. Orihiro's instruction is to chew each mouthful, not to swallow it whole.
• What sweetens it: High-fructose corn syrup and sugar do most of the work, with acesulfame K and sucralose on top.
• How you eat it: Tear the top along the dotted line and push the jelly out in two or three goes. Nothing to open, nothing to wash up, and your hands stay clean.
• About the 15% on the front: that is muscat juice in total, and only a small part of it is Shine Muscat; the rest is ordinary muscat. The orange side is 7%.
• This is the sugar one, not the low-calorie one: Orihiro makes two recipes that look almost identical on the shelf. This is the sweetened one.
• Allergens: Contains orange. Australia's allergen chart has no orange category, so orange cannot appear in the pack's allergen box here — check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.

Chew each piece properly instead of swallowing it whole, and watch small children and older people while they eat it. Do not freeze them: frozen jelly goes hard, can split the film as you squeeze, and comes out in one lump.