This is the Vedan Sikdang Purple Sweet Potato, a sweet potato snack featuring lightly sweet and salty seasoning. It contained 96% purple sweet potato.
The sweet potato fries presented as thin sticks, measuring 5 mm wide, 2 mm thick and 3–6 cm in length, with a vivid purple hue ranging from pink to almost black and coated in a fine dusting of salt and sugar. Aroma was non-descript other than a general fried-food note.
Initial contact delivered sweetness alongside a very dense, crisp crunch that persisted through to the finish. Through the mid-palate, after several crunches, earthy sweet potato notes introduced a more subtle savoury quality that restrained the initial sweetness. Towards the finish, the flavour profile was no longer particularly sweet, creating an alternating sweet-salty-sweet-salty progression that is characteristic of the dan-jjan flavour profile commonly found in Korean snacks. The pieces were slightly oily to touch, with a slight oil flavour on tasting, but this remained acceptable overall.
Overall, a sweet potato snack with an alternating sweet-savoury flavour progression and persistent dense-crisp textural development, resulting in an engaging snack that encouraged repeated eating.
This Vedan Sikdang Purple Sweet Potato contained 80 g. It was produced in South Korea and purchased in Sydney, Australia in 2026.