Koikeya Suppa Mucho Potato Chips Refreshing Plum

Suppa Mucho Plum is seasoned with umezu, the brine drawn off during the salting of Japanese plums.

It is not vinegar in the fermented sense but the liquid the fruit itself gives up — intensely sour and salty, carrying the plum’s own fragrance — and it is what gives this chip a sourness quite unlike the sharp acidity of a vinegar crisp.

Koikeya pairs it with a plum seasoning powder and a touch of sugar, so the tartness arrives with a soft, almost juicy sweetness behind it.

Ume needs explaining outside Japan.

The word translates as plum, but the fruit is closer to an apricot and is never eaten raw — it is salted into umeboshi, the pickled plum at the centre of a bento box, sharp enough to make a first-timer flinch and beloved here for exactly that reason.

Any Japanese person tasting this knows the reference immediately.

Aosa seaweed goes in underneath, adding a green, briny note that gives the chip a savoury floor to stand on, and the pink comes from anthocyanin rather than synthetic dye.

The potatoes are 100% Japanese-grown and non-GMO. Koikeya built the Mucho family as a pair — Kara Mucho for heat, Suppa Mucho for sourness — and within Suppa Mucho this is the gentler, more distinctly Japanese of the two flavours.

55 g to a bag; also sold in a 105 g size.

About this item
Item Name : Suppa Mucho Refreshing Plum
Brand : Koikeya
Item Form : Potato Chips
Allergens: Wheat, soybean
Number of Items : 55g  (Pack of 1)