Riska Umaibo Corn Puff Snack Salami

Umaibo Salami Flavor is not one of the flavors. It is the first flavor. When Riska launched Umaibo in 1979 — the year that changed Japanese dagashi permanently — salami was one of only three flavors that existed.

Nearly half a century later, it is still here. That kind of longevity does not happen by accident.

Salami — the cured, spiced, smoked sausage of European origin that found its way into Japanese convenience stores, school lunch boxes, and snack shelves with characteristic ease — translates onto a corn puff with a naturalness that still surprises.

The official description captures the ambition: a salami stick with spice and smoke, reproduced as an Umaibo. What it captures is both the what and the how.

The seasoning is built on pork powder as its foundation, delivering the savory, meaty depth that makes salami immediately recognizable. Beef powder adds a second layer of richness beside it, rounder and slightly darker in character.

Yeast extract powder deepens the umami base further, providing the lasting savoriness that keeps the flavor present well after each bite.

Spices do the rest — pepper, paprika, the quiet warmth of cured meat seasoning — arriving together with a suggestion of smoke that rounds out the profile and makes it taste, convincingly and satisfyingly, like something that spent time in a smokehouse.

The corn puff underneath carries it all with the lightness that 45 years of refinement has perfected. It is, in the end, exactly what it was in 1979: the one that started everything.

About this item
Item Name : Umaibo Salami
Brand : Riska
Item Form : Snacks
Number of Items : 6g (Pack of 1)