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18 Kit-Kat Flavors You’ve (Probably) Never Tried
Published on: June 15, 2009 – 11:28 am by Jillian Madison 
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Oh Japan… what will you think of next?
Candied sweet potato Kit-Kat:
Apple vinegar Kit-Kat with white chocolate:
Sweet corn Kit-Kat:
Watermelon and salt Kit-Kat:
Potato Kit-Kat:
Salt & caramel Kit-Kat:
Muscat Of Alexandria Grapes Kit-Kat:
Kit-Kat mini with kinako (toasted soy flour):
Pumpkin Kit-Kat:
Green tea Kit-Kat:
Espresso Kit-Kat with white chocolate:
Apple Kit-Kat:
Red beak soup flavored Kit-Kat:
Caramel macchiato Kit-Kat:
Pineapple Kit-Kat:
Chestnut Kit-Kat:
Blood orange Kit-kat
Milk and red bean filling with green tea coating:
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Wow some interesting and odd flavors. But I’d certainly be game to try them.
A few years ago in Scotland he had a passion fruit Kit Kat that was excellent. In Montreal, a while back I had a banana Kit Kat not as good.
Potato?? Really? Wow.
Of those I would probably try the Espresso & White Chocolate and maybe Chestnut. I’ll pass on all the others. Wow.
MMMMMM…I will take the salt and caramel and the blood orange and chocolate, please. They both look good, although if I were to guess, the salt and caramel one would probably taste better.
What? No octopus and seaweed KitKat? I personally would like to taste the green tea flavored…mmmm…nothing like a GREEN CANDY BAR….
some of those flavors i would definitely want to try! bring them to the USA!
A Japanese client gave me the red bean KK last week. It tasted exactly like the standard fare.
Start watching for green tea to show up in everything. It can be dehydrated and mixed into all kinds of foods to make them instantly “healthy.”
I love Kit Kat bars. I would probably try every one of these – especially the espresso and white chocolate.
I kind of want to try all of those. <3
It’s not like red bean soup sounds great – but did you have to make it “Red beak soup flavored Kit-Kat”? Yikes…
I would probably try some of these crazy flavors but some of them are really weird. I can’t imagine potato or sweet corn a big seller. The salt and caramel sounds really good though.
I think your difficulties in thinking people would like potato or sweet corn kitkat is because you think of the savory dishes made of potatoes and sweet corn. But let’s take a walk on the wild side…
Think of carrot cake. Think of zucchini cake. Not bad, not bad at all. You can make good, sweet cake with basically all the vegetables.
What about s’mores? Graham crackers (savory) with chocolate and marshmallows.
Or chocolate pretzels? Or salted peanuts with chocolate or toffee? Yum!
Some people are selling chocolate covers potato chips and they are reportedly very tasty.
well… salted peanuts, pretzels, potato chips – not too different.
Then the sweet corn.
Cornflakes are sweet corn ground, fried and covered with sugar.
Pop corn is dried and popped sweet corn. Ever tasted candy popcorn?
Is it easier to imagine corn kitkat that is actually good? Or potato kitkat?
:-)
I have the apple vinegar ones, I haven’t tried them yet. But the green tea ones are DELICIOUS! I had way too much fun looking for random candy in Japan, although I must say I’m sad I didn’t see half these flavors while I was there.
I tried the green tea one while I was in Japan. There was a white chocolate/berry one, too while I was there. The rest of these I’ve never seen.
BTW: Japan has a candy bar called Crunk. Caused a fit of giggles at the 99-yen store.
It’s amazing how many flavors they can come up with- I love buying whatever’s “new” whenever I get a chance to go to Japan.
Not to sound too nitpicky, but the “Milk and red bean filling with green tea coating” one at the end has a photo of the Pineapple Kit Kat from before.
A lot of these flavors are regional such as the Potato version comes from Hokkaido where they grow excellent potatoes. The Watermelon and salt (says just a little bit of salt is only available for a limited time just during summer, and the caramel and salt is a recent boon/boom or trend. Also “red beak” is actually red bean paste soup flavor. Nice collection of photos. I love Japan, as does my Japanese wife. :)
I’ve actually tried the green tea one when a friend brought one back from Japan. Doesn’t actually taste much different from a regular Kit-Kat.
if u were asian u would understand
:D
Just kidding
they probably taste good tho
reminds me of the last time I visited taiwan.
I got roasted chicken flavored potato chips
and also seaweed flavor
both were strangely awesome
:D
I’ve never had these odd-flavored Kit-Kats, but kinako tastes very similar to peanut butter. Azuki, or read beans, are a very common Asian sweet treat. I’ve had azuki ice cream before, and to me, it tasted much like watermelon.
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Espresso Kit-Kat with white chocolate
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have had the Apple, Green Tea flavors from friend who brought back from Japan, both interesting. Green Tea is good. It’s more like a white chocolate coating with the green tea flavor. Apple was so-so.
I want the roasted corn! and blood orange!
I am so over the obvious chocolate upon chocolate.
Why cant we (the US) get some interesting candy flavors that arent from the super expensive “all natural” and “organic” varieties.
Not one of you know why KitKat is popular in Japan? Really? You think wafer-crazy Asians would fall for this terrible American version?
The ONLY reason why KitKat is big in Japan and NO WHERE ELSE in Asia is because of a brilliant ad campaign. Kitkat in Japanese is “Kito Katsu”, which sounded like “Kitto Katsu” or “Always winning”. They are marketed to kids as good luck charms to those entering high school or college entrance exams, and soon everyone was CARRYING THEM AROUND. No, they don’t eat them – they hang them on their bags and key-chains. That’s why they need so many flavors – not because they taste good, but a different version means you have to get new ones for your collection (Japanese love collections and limited editions). You see, it’s because they’re not eating them. Some were decorating them with gems and other things on the wrapper.
Why do some of those other flavors taste just like the original? ITS BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT EATING THEM. It’s a marketing driven fad which plays on the Japanese close interpersonal relationships and tradition of giving good luck charms. They do eat them sometimes but the flavor is not the key here.
Have any of you ever seen a Japanese cake shop? Do you think with the tremendous amount of sweets (almost all of it taste better than what’s available in the US) they would go for KitKat? No, it’s only due to a fad and manufactured superstition where you get Sweet Potato KitKat.
just give it to them for being so innovative. i wonder if i could be kucky enough to indulge in these special flavours.
Ah, I tried baked potato, corn, red bean, strawberries and green tea.
Hated all of them besides strawberries and red bean.
We had the blood oranges ones some years ago, around Halloween. You could only get them from vending machines though and we do not have many vending machines in Germany.
I love everything with green tea in it. I tasted some matcha chocolates, but not Kit-Kat.
By the way, the last picture does not fit the flavor. You posted pineapple twice.
They’ve just come out with a Raspberry & Passion Fruit one that’s absolutely delicious.
I’m also a fan of the apple carrot one, which luckily tasted more like apple than carrot, the caramel pudding one and the milk coffee one.
So in Japan Kit-Kat is pronounced Kitto Katsu.
This means “I’ll certainly win!” in Japanese.
Hence these became kind of a good luck or encouragement present, hence their crazy popularity.
Good luck can taste real good sometimes.
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Kinako Ohagi Flavor Kit Kat
Think about this. When the first guy put ketchup on a hamburger; did people think it was weird
Aw man, was over in September, so many flavors! Apple and Carrot were the best! So weird, yet so good.
I am in Okinawa. Does anyone know where I can buy these??
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there was Soy Sauce flavor when I was in Japan late last year. surprised it didn’t make the list.
Went to Japan someone told me you had Kit Kat with Soy Sauce. Is that true?
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Macha flavored Kit Kats are delicious! Loved them while I was there. Course, I had at least 1 Macha flavored item every day there xD
“Milk and red bean filling with green tea coating:”
… LOOKS JUST LIKE PINEAPPLE KITKAT! :O
my connecting flight was in japan last year and they had a limited edition soy sauce flavor
I’ve tried all of them plus the Wasabi flavour. They are all really nice.