Calbee Miino Sora Mame Fava Beans Snack Salt Family Pack

Miino is a fava bean fried whole and salted, and that is the entire product.

Three ingredients appear on the list — fava beans, vegetable oil, salt — plus vitamin C as an antioxidant, and nothing else.

No flour, no starch, no seasoning powder; the bean is fried in its own skin, which splits open in the oil and gives the piece its characteristic shape.

Sora mame means sky bean, named for the pods that grow pointing upward rather than hanging.

The bean itself is large, starchy and distinctly nutty, eaten boiled in summer across Japan and roasted as a drinking snack — and frying it whole concentrates that flavour rather than masking it.

The texture is sakutto, a light clean break, because the bean dehydrates in the oil rather than crisping a coating.

This is the family pack: eight triangular sachets of 7 g, 56 g in all, designed to be shared or carried.

The sachets keep the beans dry, which matters more here than for a coated snack.

Calbee positions Miino as a snack that is straightforwardly made rather than a reduced-anything product.

About this item
Item Name : Miino Sora Mame Salt Family Pack
Brand : Calbee
Item Form : Bean Snacks
Allergens: None
Number of Items : 7g x 8 = 56g (Pack of 1)