The low-calorie one
Orihiro Low Calorie Konjac Jelly — Peach & Kyoho Grape, 12 Pouches
$6.59
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Orihiro Konjac Jelly — Shine Muscat & Orange, 12 Pouches
$6.59
$2.75 per 100 g
Product information
About
Twelve squeeze pouches of Japanese konjac jelly, six white peach and six Kyoho grape, sweetened with erythritol rather than sugar syrup. It is firm and springy, and you chew it rather than swallow it. Buy it if you want something sweet that is genuinely low in calories; if artificial sweeteners taste obvious to you, you will taste them in this one.
On the pack: ぷるんと蒟蒻ゼリー カロリーゼロ 白桃＋巨峰. Konjac: konnyaku in Japanese, is the root vegetable the jelly is set with instead of gelatine. Kyoho is a big, dark, sweet Japanese table grape.
What you're getting
- Taste: Clean and delicate rather than rich, and the fruit in both halves 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: Erythritol, a sugar alcohol, does the bulk of the work in place of sugar syrup, topped up with acesulfame K, aspartame and sucralose.
- Why the pack says zero: Japanese labelling lets a food this low in energy be printed as zero. Australian rules count it differently, so we call it low calorie rather than zero. The gap is tiny, but zero is not the honest word for it here.
- 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.
- Allergens: Contains peach. Australia's allergen chart has no peach category, so peach cannot appear in the pack's allergen box here — check the ingredients, not the chart; ours is the fuller list.
- Allergens, one more: It is sweetened partly with aspartame, which is a source of phenylalanine. That matters to anyone managing phenylketonuria (PKU). The Kyoho grape half also carries hydrolysed protein of a source Orihiro does not state, so it is not one to buy as vegetarian.
People divide sharply over whether this tastes as good as the sugar version, and the ones who say it doesn't all point at the sweetener rather than the fruit. 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.
Ingredients
The maker's ingredient list, translated from the Japanese pack. Anything after the break is an additive — the Japanese label lists those separately.
White peach: Erythritol (manufactured in China), konjac powder, peach juice
gelling agent (thickening polysaccharides), acidity regulator, flavouring, potassium chloride, sweeteners (acesulfame K, aspartame·L-phenylalanine compound, sucralose).
Kyoho grape: Erythritol (manufactured in China), konjac powder, Kyoho grape juice, hydrolysed protein
gelling agent (thickening polysaccharides), acidity regulator, flavouring, potassium chloride, sweeteners (acesulfame K, aspartame·L-phenylalanine compound, sucralose), gardenia colour.
Both flavours contain aspartame, a source of phenylalanine. Neither contains gelatine — the jelly is set with konjac powder and thickening polysaccharides.
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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- Peach
- Dietary notes
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Both flavours are sweetened partly with aspartame, which is a source of phenylalanine. Anyone managing PKU needs to know that; for everyone else it changes nothing. The Kyoho grape half also carries hydrolysed protein, and Orihiro does not say what it is made from, so this is not one to buy as a vegetarian product, even though nothing animal-derived is named on the label.
- Dietary
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- Gelatine-free
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
- Orihiro Plandu
- Prefecture
- Gunma
- Made in
- Japan
- Net contents
- One bag: 216 g, twelve 18 g pouches, six white peach and six Kyoho grape
Our guide
How to eat it
- Chill them for a couple of hours before eating: the texture is at its best cold.
- Tear the top along the dotted line with both hands, then push the jelly out in two or three goes. Don't put the opening in your mouth; the cut edge can nick your lip.
- Chew each piece properly rather than swallowing it whole, and watch small children and older people while they eat it.
- Don't freeze them: frozen jelly goes hard, can split the film as you squeeze it out, and the texture does not come back the same. The cupboard is the right place for the bag, and each pouch inside is sealed on its own.
- Erythritol is a sugar alcohol, and a few people find that eating several in a row leaves them a bit windy. Start with one or two if you have not had it before.
In their own words
What Japanese buyers say
- What they like
Clean-tasting white peach and Kyoho grape — delicious. The easy-to-eat size is good too.
白桃と巨峰のさっぱりとした味わいで、美味しかったです。食べやすいサイズ感も良いですね。
from mognavi
- What they like
I get the feeling Orihiro's little type is the springiest of the lot.
オリヒロさんのちっちゃいタイプが一番ぷるんぷるんな気がします。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
The sweetener was strong and the fruit flavour thin — not for me.
甘味料が強く果物の味も薄く苦手でした
from monolog
- What they like
Chilled, it's springy and chewy.
冷蔵だとぷるんともちもち〜✨
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
Maybe because it's the calorie-zero recipe, the flavour is thin.
カロリーゼロなのか味が薄い。
from monolog
- What they like
I ate them frozen — the sweetness is quite restrained, a grown-up-tasting konjac jelly.
冷凍していただきましたが甘さはかなりの控えめな大人味の蒟蒻ゼリー。
from mognavi
- What they like
A konjac jelly whose feature is its springy texture — I thought children and elderly people need supervising when they eat it.
ぷるんとした食感が特徴の蒟蒻ゼリーで、お子様や高齢者の方が食べられる時は、見守りが必要だなとぼくは思いました。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
I put these in my child's lunchbox every day, and was told "the calorie-zero one isn't nice, stop putting it in!"
子どものお弁当にこちらのゼリーを毎日入れてますが、ゼロカロリーは美味しく無いからいれないで！といわれました。
from monolog
- What they like
Even eaten frozen it softens quickly, so it's good.
凍らせて食べても、すぐに柔らかくなるのでおいしいです。
from mognavi
- What they grumble about
It seems to only come as a 12-piece assortment — if there were a 6-pack I'd buy it again.
12個入りのアソートしかないみたいなので、6個入りが有れば又買いたいと思いました。
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
- Orihiro Plandu
- Gunma
Orihiro started in 1972 in Tomioka, Gunma, moved its head office to Takasaki in the same prefecture in 1996, and still makes these there.
It runs three plants, and one of them takes konjac all the way from the raw corm to the milled flour in house rather than buying it in. It builds packaging machinery too: its sterile pouch-filling system passed United States FDA certification in December 2009, and the twist-open jelly pouch went on sale three months after that, in March 2010.
Product facts here are checked against the maker's own page: health.orihiro.com (opens in a new tab)
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