Glico Pocky Chocolate Cacao 60%

Pocky has always understood that the pretzel and the chocolate are in conversation. With Cacao 60%, that conversation turns serious.

Launched in 2023 as the most bitter Pocky in the brand’s history, Cacao 60% is built around a single clear intention: to put real cacao — in quantity, from a specific origin, handled with care — at the center of a snack that has spent decades being the world’s most recognizable chocolate pretzel stick.

The result is a Pocky that tastes unmistakably of itself, but deeper: the same satisfying snap, the same clean finish, and beneath both of them a chocolate that earns genuine attention rather than simply providing sweetness.

The cacao comes from Ecuador — a origin known among chocolate makers for a floral, aromatic profile that sits above the earthy bitterness common to West African varieties — and it comprises 60% of the chocolate coating, a proportion that pushes the sweetness firmly into the background and lets the cacao’s own character come forward.

The restraint is deliberate. Glico describes the sweetness as hikaeme — modest, held back — and that modesty is what makes each stick feel adult in a way that most snack-format chocolate does not quite manage.

The pretzel beneath the chocolate is equally considered. Rather than a standard white flour base, it is made with whole wheat flour and cocoa powder, giving each stick a faint earthiness and a slightly deeper color that complements the bitterness of the coating rather than contrasting with it.

Inulin — a natural dietary fiber — is worked into the recipe alongside the wheat, contributing to the 367mg of cacao polyphenols and the dietary fiber content that make this not merely a more sophisticated snack but a more considered one.

At 2 packs per box, Cacao 60% is the Pocky for the end of a meal, the pause in an afternoon, the moment that calls for something genuinely chocolatey rather than merely sweet. The most serious Pocky in the lineup — and one of the most satisfying.

About this item
Item Name : Pocky Cacao 60%
Brand : Glico
Item Form : Chocolate
Number of Items : 27.3g x 2 Packs (Box of 1)