What do Pikmin taste like? The professional opinion you’ve been waiting for

A few days ago, an interesting question was posed in the VG247 Slack. A very important question, actually. What do Pikmin taste like? With the same curious spark inside me that lead to adding a dog-nose to Oatchi previously, I had to find out exactly what Pikmin 4’s cast of peculiar little half-plant, half-animal creatures would taste like.

Spoiler alert; I did not eat any Pikmin. Sadly, I am aware that these busy little workers aren’t real, and if they were, I wouldn’t know which planet to try and find them on (and you probably wouldn’t be able to grow it in Britain, anyway). However, I do have some food connoisseurs for friends – some real serious gourmand types – and as a result, I have been able to enlist the expert opinion of two full-time chefs in my quest to determine what Pikmin would be like on the tongue. This, after all, is the information we’re all dying to know.

My close friend, Clarke, thinks that the red Pikmin “definitely tastes like a radish.” This sentiment was actually backed up by another old friend and chef, Sam, who agreed “the red one looks suspiciously like a radish.” I personally thought the red Pikmin resembles one of those Atomic Fireblast sweets – or a pomegranate seed, if you’re more health concious – but the chefs have spoken.