Hi-Chew – Persimmon

Persimmon is one of those fruits I could never really get behind. I never was able to figure out the ideal consumption state for the fruit. Either it wasn’t ripe enough, and it was all tough and hard to chew but with a great flavour, or it was overripe and had a nice texture but awful flavour. When I say awful flavour, it reminds me of sweat for some reason. And not the taste of actual sweat. Not that I would know…because I totally have not accidentally maybe never tasted it. It’s more like it smells the way you would think it tastes. Am I making sense? No? Ok moving on.

In my mind, I’m expecting the candy to taste like the less ripe version, aka the version that has a better flavour to it. I feel like I’ve done enough Hi-Chew reviews that we can settle on a few things, like how they are usually really good with flavours, and they’ve got some of the best textures out there for a chewy candy.

As with many Hi-Chews, it has a different colour from the outside and the inside. As far as I can tell, there isn’t that much of a difference in flavour from the outside and the inside. For all I know it’s all the same flavour and the difference in flavour is all in my head. I’m going to keep on believing I’m right though, for the sake of my sanity. I don’t need another existential crisis trigger.

You can kind of tell the inner beige is different from the outer, slightly less bland beige.

I can’t really say what it smells like, but it does not remind me of persimmon at all. Then again, I may be pulling memories based on the overripe version; I may be expecting it to be smell like the sweaty version of the fruit. If anything, it reminds me more of a generic sweet, slightly floral fruit. Maybe a passion fruit? Or something tropical? It’s hard to put my finger on it.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say that looks like twin cherries sitting on the back of an ox.

Needless to say, the chew is awesome as always. The flavour is throwing me off. It doesn’t taste at all what I expect from persimmon, the ripe version, or the unripe one. It just kind of tastes like…well a bubble tea. It’s not that it isn’t flavourful, it’s more that it isn’t the expected flavour. To be fair, persimmon is a fairly hard flavour to capture so I wasn’t really expecting them to nail this one. It reminds me more of a passion fruit flavour, or some hybrid fruit with a bit of mango thrown in, which I actually like. As a flavour, I like this. If it was labelled as a mystery flavour, I would want more. But because it’s sold as persimmon, I have to dock points off for it. That being said, i can’t really say I’m disappointed, since I’m not crazy about persimmon. This will exacerbate my trust issues though, as I do feel slightly lied to. Just a bit. I would be unlikely to repurchase this, unless it was super cheap.

As always, low calorie count per piece, for those who care.

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