A few months ago I was contacted by JBox, the webstore that lets North Americans buy Japanese snacks directly from Japan. I’ve ordered from them before, so I was happy to have some personal contact from them and I suggested they start carrying some items that I know readers here are interested in. (Juntsuyu for one and Mentos.) They also gave me a sassy gift certificate so that I could try a wider variety of their products. (I’ve already reviewed HiCHEW Yuzu & Valencia Orange, UHA Puccho Custard, Lotte Crunky and Shigekix Aha! Brain on their dime.)
After my wonderful experience with the Asian Sour Mentos that had pineapple in the mix, I had to try the Japanese Pine Fresh Mentos.
I was so encouraged that I ordered three rolls of the Pine Fresh. Can I just say that I’m sorry I only ordered three?
The package is so funny. Usually the upper corner above the local says “Chewy Dragee” or “Chewy Mint”. In this case it says “The Chewy Pine Fresh.”
The color is a delicate and soft yellow. They don’t smell like much, but Mentos rarely do.
Upon biting into them I get a nice burst of floral fruitiness - it reminds me of freesias (which remind me of Froot Loops).
Then there’s a tart bite and a good rounded flavor of pineapple.
I love ‘em. I’m out of ‘em.
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- Mentos Plus Citrus Mix
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Name: |
Pine Fresh Mentos |
RATING:
- SUPERB
- YUMMY
- TASTY
- WORTH IT
- TEMPTING
- PLEASANT
- BENIGN
- UNAPPEALING
- APPALLING
- INEDIBLE
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Brand: |
Mentos |
Place Purchased: |
samples from JBox |
Price: |
unknown |
Size: |
unknown |
Calories per ounce: |
unknown |
Categories: |
Chew, Japan, Perfetti Van Melle |
When I think of “pine fresh” the first thing I think of is Pine-sol. But now these Mentos come in a close second.
Ooh. I just ordered some candies from them a week ago. I ordered these, those tea hard candies you reviewed, and a couple others.
Haha, Do you think you could get them to carry yuzu Hi-Chews again?
So long as it’s pineAPPLE and not PineSOL flavor, sounds good. I’d like a roll of those and one of the grapefruit. I guess Fruit Gems will have to do for now.
I loved these so much too! They were sold out by the time I went to make my next order…so I got the melon creme ones instead!
Lol! Pine Fresh—sounds like a cleaning product. I can actually taste the artificial pine smell when I read that—yuck. However, I am a huge fan of the pineapple LifeSavers, so I may have to find some of these.
at this rate its only a matter of time before we see Durian Mentos!
The Japanese mentos have a way of being more subtly coloured that makes them much more appetising. In Australia or America they wouldn’t be able to help themselves from colouring these neon yellow but the pale yellow is much more appealing. I want these and I don’t even like mentos.
You cannot find these in the UK. As a matter of fact, I think you guys get shipments of the very best sweets there are, while we only get half. :/
Anybody any idea how to get these in Holland?
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