Morinaga Henshin Chews

Hey all! We're back with another installment of Sugarnoms! We wish we could update more often, but both Silvy and I have been very busy! New jobs and such tend to make you extra occupied. 

Anyway, this time we have two rather interesting candy chews. Morinaga has a lot of different candies under their belt, but when I saw these Henshin candies (henshin meaning transformation) I had to give them a go.  

Basically, they come in two 'flavour' sets. One being Banana Strawberry and the other being Banana Orange. The front and back of the packaging shows the kind of flavours you get when you mix any particular two flavours, with a mystery 'popular drink' flavour if you mix in a 3rd flavour. They sort of encourage you to get both at the same time, if not to experiment. Thankfully they aren't expensive, the price going at roughly RM 3 and up a piece depending where you get 'em.

As you can see, banana and orange becomes ramune (soda) flavour, while strawberry and banana becomes melon flavour. Throw in an extra flavour from another pack and it becomes that special 'popular drink' flavour.

 Here's what they look like outta the packaging. They're slightly sticky but they were nice and thick. I tried each individual flavour before getting down to the mixing.

The orange tasted nice, slightly tangy but not overbearing. This was my favourite of the lot.

Banana was pretty neutral, tasting only a hint of the fruit itself.

The strawberry was surprisingly muted tasting, despite blasting my face with strawberry scent when I opened the packaging, but it didn't taste artificial so it was actually quite pleasant.

Now on to the mixed flavours.

The melon flavour more or less tasted like melon, though it still tasted rather muted but it was nice and mellow.

The ramune flavour on the other hand, only smelled like its namesake but didn't taste like it. It was still alright but I feel it fell rather short.

The 'popular drink' flavour, if you didn't guess yet that it was cola flavour. Sadly the mix tasted like a real weird cola, but thankfully the flavours that made it up weren't quite discernible after mixing.

It was really fun to twizzle though.

Spire sez: Its sticky, thick and slightly sweet. Tends to get really stuck in teeth. Personally I find it quite nice in small quantities, and if you chill it a bit, you can chop up the lot into segments for drawn out enjoyment. It's easily eaten out of the packaging too, so it gets plus points for being mess-free. 

Spire's Ratings

Flavor: 3/5

Price: 4/5

DIY level: Nonexistant

Fun:  3/5