Did Morinaga Milk Cocoa (Japan) shrink?

Size FactsDid it shrink? Yes
Before240 g
After200 g
−16.7%smaller
Price per 100 g · if the price stayed the same+20.0%Hypothetical: the size cut alone. The source recorded no shelf prices.

How big a cut? The joint 20th-largest of 57 documented coffee & tea cuts (tied with 3 others); a bigger cut than 62% of all 1,366 cases in the library. See the biggest cuts →

When
2025 · reported 16 Jul 2025
Country
Japan
Brand
Morinaga
Category
Coffee & Tea
Source
morinaga.co.jp

Source and evidence

Morinaga & Co. — price revision and content change notice (16 Jul 2025) morinaga.co.jp

Source fetched 2026-10-29.

From 2 Sept 2025 the bag went from 240 g to 200 g (−17%) while the price rose about 12%, roughly 34% more per gram. Pakisiel ice bars went from 7 to 6 a pack (price ~7% up) from 1 Sept 2025.

Evidence
Typemanufacturer announcement (price/size notice)
Confidencehigh

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What the source says

“サンド 板チョコアイス ザ・クレープ<チョコ&バニラ> パリパリバー<バニラ> ▼価格改定および内容量変更商品 改定日 商品名 価格改定率 内容量変更率 内容量 現行 改定後 冷菓 1品目 9月1日(発売分より) パキシエル 約7% ▲約 14% 40ml×7 本 40ml×6本 食品 1品目 9月2日(発売分より) ミルクココア 約 12% ▲約 17% 240g…”

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ShrinkRadar, “Did Morinaga Milk Cocoa (Japan) shrink? 240 g → 200 g”, https://shrinkradar.com/cases/morinaga-milk-cocoa-japan-2025.html, accessed 2026-11-05. Original source: Morinaga & Co. — price revision and content change notice (16 Jul 2025) (https://www.morinaga.co.jp/public/newsrelease/web/fix/file68770dba291b9.pdf).

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