One of the nice things about having Asian grocery stores in San Jose is the variety of snacks and sweets they offer, many of them flavored with tea. The Oreo Matcha candy bar can be purchased at one of the Japanese grocery stores in San Jose’s Japantown. This treat is a Nabisco brand candy, made in Japan, and is an example of the fun that can result when Eastern tastes meet Western ones. Chocolate and tea have lately been recognized by Westerners as a good combination!
The product is a crunchy cookies-and-cream foam-type center, flavored with matcha green tea, covered in chocolate. It is reminiscent of a Kit Kat candy bar, except with a drier texture. The matcha is the prominent flavor, followed closely by the chocolate and vanilla of the cookies-and-cream. The only English words on the packaging are “Nabisco” and “Oreo,” but the grocery stores in Japantown make sure there is an ingredient list in English on every product they sell, so it is easy to see what this candy is all about. The ingredients are: sugar, cocoa butter, wheat flour, milk powder, palm oil, cocoa mass, green tea, skim milk powder, wheat puff, corn flour, salt, malt flour, yeast emulsifier (soy), leavening, cellulose, artificial flavor, calcium carbonate, caramel. It contains 198 calories and 11 g of fat in each candy bar.
I had never seen a cookies-and-cream/matcha green tea candy bar before, but I found it to be tasty and not cloyingly sweet. It is a lighter kind of treat that I would buy again, or give to friends!
Copyright 2010, Elizabeth Urbach.
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That's interesting. Where I live all the frozen yogurt places sell green tea flavored frozen yogurt. It does not have much flavor. I think the cold is suppressing the flavor.
That could be the case, although a lot of places in my area sell green tea ice cream, and it does taste like green tea. Not an intense flavor, but it's definitely there.
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