Quickie: Polar Bear Puccho

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Here's a quickie post from my backlog! 

In case this is your first exposure, Puccho is a bouncy chewy candy similar to Hi-Chew, but it typically has flavored gummi embeds. I've reviewed many flavors in the past, but I hadn't seen this one before. The bag translates to "polar bear," and the visuals make this seem like a shaved ice dessert topped with red bean and fruit. I did a casual search on Google and while the results were rather sparse, it does seem that this concept has been around for at least 50 years. A "polar bear" is shaved ice topped with sweetened condensed milk and various fruits or jellies. 

I'm intrigued. How will this translate into a chewy candy? 

Opened, the base of the candy is an off-white chew, and there are potentially fruit flavored gummy inserts poking out of the sides. The base on it's own is chewy, sweet, a little creamy, and kind of tangy. It is fairly similar to yogurt flavored chews I've had in the past, but there is a slight cooling sensation similar to the Blueberry Ice cream Oreos I had several years ago. It's not mint-based, more like Sweet n' Low. Normally I hate the artificiality of those ingredients, and the cooling feeling they create, but it's tolerable here. 

The base is yogurt-y, but the mix-ins lean tropical. I can taste pineapple and a bit of orange. The more you chew, the more fruity things become, but I don't taste anything strawberry-y or red-bean like. It's more pineapple/piña colada. Which I really like. 

In terms of it's icy gimmick, I would say this is a 2/5. It has a slight cooling sensation but doesn't taste as complex as it's promised to be. I had three pieces and didn't detect any red bean at all. But in terms of enjoyability, it gets a 4/5, because I really enjoy pineapple flavored sweets. 

If you like piña coladas, and eating bouncy Asian chews, this will definitely be worthwhile. 

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