Second in my soy milk tasting adventure is Kikkoman’s purin (プリン) flavoured soy milk. “Purin” is basically the Japanese katakana word for “pudding” and usually refers to the custard variety. Purin is a pretty popular dessert, and the chiller section has many brands of purin available for one to purchase as at-home desserts.
My Opinion
I was a little surprised to see purin-flavoured soy milk and was excited to try it. I thought the package with the little cartoon illustration of a pudding looked pretty stinkin’ cute too. The back of the pack even had instructions on how to turn the soy milk into actual solid purin with the help of gelatin, though I didn’t do that, and just consumed the product in its original form for testing purposes.
The taste wasn’t bad at all. As was the case with the tea-flavoured version, this one didn’t really taste like soy milk. It kinda just tasted like how I’d imagine cheap pudding to taste. Like if I wanted to make actual pudding from a pack of generic pudding mix, but didn’t wait for the pudding to solidify and just drank the solution. Not terrible by any means, and definitely tasted like pudding as promised, but a little thin in flavour.
Overall, I think I’d give it a 6/10. It wasn’t bad, but I think eating real pudding would have been more satisfying.
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