Shinsyu-ichi Instant Miso Soup 5 Kinds 20 Servings 322g

Twenty single-serve Japanese miso soups in one bag, four each of five fillings, each made in a bowl with boiling water and no cooking. It is a savoury miso broth made with a stock of bonito, other dried fish and kelp, with fried tofu, tofu, spinach or long green onion in it, and wakame seaweed in every bowl. Buy it if you want miso soup most days without making stock yourself; if you need a miso soup made without fish, this is the wrong bag, because the stock is made from fish.

神州一味噌 お徳用20食 あわせ is the Japanese on the front. Shinsyu-ichi (shin-shoo-ee-chee) is the brand, 味噌 is miso, お徳用 means value size, 20食 means 20 servings, and あわせ (awase) means a blend of miso.

What you're getting

• Two sachets per bowl: every serving is a sachet of miso paste and a sachet of dried filling. All twenty pastes are the same, so any paste goes with any filling.
• Five fillings to rotate: fried tofu (aburaage), wakame seaweed, tofu, spinach, and long green onion, four of each.
• The filling is small: it is dried pieces that soften in the water, not a bowlful of vegetables.
• Watching your salt? The reduced-salt bag from the same maker has the same five fillings and twenty servings, with 30% less salt per serve than this one.
• Allergens: fish, soy and wheat. Our list is wider than the pack's own allergen chart: Japan's rules have no category for fish, so the pack names bonito and sardine in its ingredient list, not its allergen box. Read that ingredient list before you rely on ours: on fish, ours is the fuller list.
• Also on the label: the stock is made from fish, and the miso paste also contains alcohol.