Ginbis Tabekko Dobutsu Animal Shaped Biscuits Vegetables

This is the Tabekko Dobutsu a parent buys with a clear conscience.

Everything that makes the classic animal biscuits a national fixture is here — the little zoo of shapes, each stamped with its animal’s name in English, the light crisp bite, the whole gentle ritual of eating your way through a bag while learning the words — but the recipe is quietly turned toward the vegetable garden.

The dough is worked with a genuinely ambitious amount of produce: juice and extracts from 22 different vegetables and 3 fruits, folded right into the biscuit.

The roll call runs from carrot, spinach, and tomato through kale, broccoli, pumpkin, and beet to apple, orange, and lemon — the kind of list usually found on a green smoothie, not a children’s snack.

Three of them (spinach, carrot, tomato) also appear as colorful visible flecks in the biscuit, so the vegetable content is something you can see.

The clever part is what you can’t taste.

Ginbis tuned the recipe specifically to erase the grassy, green bitterness that makes many vegetable snacks a hard sell to children, leaving a mild, lightly savory biscuit that eats much like the beloved butter original — friendly to every age.

It is also formulated as an official Japanese “nutrient function food” for calcium, with a single 55g bag supplying a meaningful share of the daily reference intake.

For a parent, it is the perfect sleight of hand: the exact snack the kids already beg for, quietly carrying a garden’s worth of vegetables. For everyone else, it is simply another very easy bag to finish.

About this item
Item Name : Tabekko Dobutsu Vegetables
Brand : Ginbis
Item Form : Cookie & Biscuit
Number of Items : 55g (Box of 1)