Puccho (Ultra Miracle w/AKB48) - Asian Food Market : Cherry Hill, NJ

Puccho are yummy chewy candies, similar to the brand Hi-Chew, that come in a variety of flavors. I was so excited, I bought one of each flavor in The Asian Food Market. The flavors are: cola, white strawberry (aka pineberry), and ultra miracle.

Today, we’ll be looking at ULTRA MIRACLE! The packaging is really bright and colorful. I really like how energetic it looks, but it is VERY busy. This flavor was the only one of the three to have the popular group AKB48 promo on the package. (If you don’t know who there are THIS has more info.)

Right now, AKB48 are doing a (kind of disturbing) promo for the candy. This promo involves all the girls of one group passing one of these candies down to each other using their mouths. This is a play on the candy’s name “puccho,” which is similar to a kiss. So the girls pass it ‘kiss-style’ to one another. It is only disturbing to me, because these girls are young, they are scouted by a company from schools to participate in this organization, and the extreme creepy reaction this commercial is getting from their older male fans. This is commercialism, not love.

Okay, enough creepy commercial rants, back to the candy itself. Now, what flavor is ultra miracle? The name doesn’t really tell us much at all, and the packaging doesn’t describe the flavor in English, so I had to look it up online. It is meant to be a sweet yogurt chew with stripes of pineapple and apple. Inside, there are sweet bouncy gummy spheres and some soda spheres. Let’s open it up and give it a try.

The wrapper shows the candy mascot in costumes or doing all sorts of activities. This time he looks like he is a little pirate! Adorable.

The candy itself is very similar to a high chew, but this is multicolored. I can see the apple and pine apple stripes on the outside and a hint of the gummies on the sides of the chew.

It doesn’t really smell like much, but when I put it in my mouth I was really surprised by how strong the flavors were! Right away I can taste the pineapple and the soda spheres. They fizz in your mouth just like the inside of Zots candy. The apple flavor becomes more obvious after the soda fizz dies down, and I could barely sense the little gummies inside.

These were REALLY refreshing. I wasn’t expecting this flavor to be so bright and fizzy. I really like this flavor and I hope it is a permanent addition and not some special limited flavor.

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