Calbee Jagarico Potato Snacks Salad

Jagarico changes texture as you eat it.

Calbee’s phrase is hajime karitto, ato kara sakusaku — hard at first, then crisp — and it describes something real: the stick is dense enough to resist the first bite, then fragments as the inside gives way.

The effect comes from a production method that fries potato twice, which no other Japanese potato snack reproduces.

Salad is the original flavour and still the one the brand is built on.

The name misleads slightly — this is not a dressing flavour but a mild, creamy seasoning built on skimmed milk powder and pepper, with flecks of dried carrot and parsley visible through each stick.

Those flecks are the point as much as the taste; they give the product its look, which Japanese shoppers recognise immediately.

The potatoes are Japanese-grown. Jagarico comes in a cylindrical cup rather than a bag — a format that keeps the sticks upright and unbroken, and that has made it a fixture of Japanese desks, trains and convenience stores since 1995.

57 g to a cup, 285 kcal.

About this item
Item Name : Jagarico Salad
Brand : Calbee
Item Form : Potato Snack
Allergens: Milk, soybean
Number of Items : 57g (Box of 1)