Handing over the coins to buy my fruit. Waiting for change. Glance down, and what is this here? Three tubs of pre-set jelly, in a traffic light trio of red, yellow and green. Strawberry, mango and kiwi flavour respectively.
Never heard of kiwi or mango flavour before!
Very sneaky to be selling jelly at a fruit store, especially when a skim of the ingredients reveals no actual fruit content.
But who can turn down cheap and unusually sugary snacks? Only people will great willpower, ergo not me.
“Do I need to refrigerate it before eating?” I ask the shop-owner.
She shakes her head. “No. It has a spoon in it for eating now.”
Too easy! I can always eat my healthy fruit later…
Kiwi for now, I think. I don’t really know what kiwi fruit is supposed to taste like (I always avoid them cause they’re so… green…) so the taste will be a double surprise!
Tear it openYI!
Green liquid sprays out onto my chair and clothes.
What an endearing start.
Mop myself up, drain the coloured water on the top of the jelly away, try again.
Hm. The texture is kind of like jelly, but bites apart easier. It slices up neatly between my teeth, it doesn’t mush down like regular jelly.
It smells like artificial green apple.
It tastes… in a way that matches the green food colouring. Also in a kind of apple way, but maybe that’s just my nearest approximation. I do taste some idea of the kiwi fruit I’ve had incidentally, like on a pavlova, so they are trying to make it taste real. It’s sweetly artificially fake… in a watery nothing way.
Right, a few spoonfuls of that is quite enough. Should have stuck with the fruit.
Rating:
Specifics: YAME Kiwi Flavour Jelly, bought in Merrylands
Malaysian Kiwi Jelly
Handing over the coins to buy my fruit. Waiting for change. Glance down, and what is this here? Three tubs of pre-set jelly, in a traffic light trio of red, yellow and green. Strawberry, mango and kiwi flavour respectively.
Never heard of kiwi or mango flavour before!
Very sneaky to be selling jelly at a fruit store, especially when a skim of the ingredients reveals no actual fruit content.
But who can turn down cheap and unusually sugary snacks? Only people will great willpower, ergo not me.
“Do I need to refrigerate it before eating?” I ask the shop-owner.
She shakes her head. “No. It has a spoon in it for eating now.”
Too easy! I can always eat my healthy fruit later…
Kiwi for now, I think. I don’t really know what kiwi fruit is supposed to taste like (I always avoid them cause they’re so… green…) so the taste will be a double surprise!
Tear it openYI!
Green liquid sprays out onto my chair and clothes.
What an endearing start.
Mop myself up, drain the coloured water on the top of the jelly away, try again.
Hm. The texture is kind of like jelly, but bites apart easier. It slices up neatly between my teeth, it doesn’t mush down like regular jelly.
It smells like artificial green apple.
It tastes… in a way that matches the green food colouring. Also in a kind of apple way, but maybe that’s just my nearest approximation. I do taste some idea of the kiwi fruit I’ve had incidentally, like on a pavlova, so they are trying to make it taste real. It’s sweetly artificially fake… in a watery nothing way.
Right, a few spoonfuls of that is quite enough. Should have stuck with the fruit.
Rating:
Specifics: YAME Kiwi Flavour Jelly, bought in Merrylands