Glico Tomato Pretz Pretzel Sticks

Tomato Pretz is the flavor that has run alongside Umami Salad in Glico’s Pretz lineup for decades — the two most recognized varieties in a lineup of more than twenty, and the ones that people tend to refer to as a pair.

Where Umami Salad is built on bouillon and consommé, Tomato Pretz is built on the specific acidity and sweetness of tomato, and takes a more direct approach to its flavor: tomato paste and tomato-based brewed vinegar both worked into the dough, rather than a surface seasoning.

The tomato vinegar is the detail that distinguishes this from a simple tomato-flavored cracker.

Brewed from tomato rather than grain or fruit, it adds an acidity that is specifically tomato in character — more complex and rounder than citric acid would produce, and more integrated into the dough because it is present at the base rather than applied as a coating.

Dried spinach adds a faint vegetable depth and a natural green color to the dough that is visible in cross-section, and onion seasoning provides the background savory note that rounds the tomato’s acidity without competing with it.

The result is a pretzel stick that tastes genuinely of tomato — bright, slightly tart, with the particular aromatic sweetness of cooked tomato rather than fresh — rather than a tomato-flavored snack that simply uses tomato coloring and artificial flavoring.

The color of the dough is noticeably redder than the standard Pretz, which signals the concentration of tomato paste before the first bite.

53g per box, split into two 26.5g bags.

The red one in the Pretz lineup, which has been the red one since before most people reading this were born.

About this item
Item Name : Tomato Pretz
Brand : Glico
Item Form : Pretzel
Number of Items : 53g (Box of 1)