Calbee Miino Sora Mame Fava Beans Snack Black Pepper

The Black Pepper version of Miino takes the same whole-fried fava bean base as the Salt flavor and adds the one seasoning that works with the bean’s character without obscuring it.

Black pepper and fava beans have a long culinary history together — the combination appears across Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cooking in dishes where the bean’s earthiness and slight bitterness provide exactly the kind of base that black pepper’s heat and fragrance needs to land against.

The Miino version arrives at the same conclusion from a snack format rather than a kitchen one.

The fava bean is still the point.

Calbee’s proprietary deep-frying method produces the saku-hokku texture — the immediate crispness at the skin giving way to the warmer, starchier interior — and the bean’s natural flavor remains legible through the seasoning.

The black pepper arrives as a fragrance first, released when the bag opens, and then as a warmth that builds as you work through each piece rather than hitting all at once.

Onion powder and yeast extract powder add a background savory depth that supports the pepper without adding a distinct flavor of their own — seasoning that enhances rather than competes.

The ingredient list is longer than the Salt version but still short by snack standards: fava bean, vegetable oil, salt, black pepper, sugar, glucose, starch, powdered fat, yeast extract powder, dextrin, onion powder.

The result is a bean that tastes like a bean with black pepper on it, which is precisely the calibration Calbee was aiming for.

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About this item
Item Name : Miino Sora Mame Black Pepper
Brand : Calbee
Item Form : Bean Snacks
Number of Items : 25g (Pack of 1)