Your taste buds will be happy but your hunger wont be satisfied (Mikado Chocolate Biscuit)

Member Name: karalouk

Product:	Mikado Chocolate Biscuit
Date:	12/08/09 (111 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tasty, handy, not many calories, I got them quite cheap

Disadvantages: Too small - won't satisfy hunger, moreish, overhyped, overpriced

I picked up a pack of Mikado Chocolate Biscuits after reading countless online reviews of them (good and bad) and stumbling across them for the bargain price of 60p in ASDA.

Mikado is a new biscuit that has been lauched by Kraft. There appears to be much hype around these funny little biscuits and that's probably down to the clever £3 million media campaign!

Mikado comes in 75g box - much like an oversized 10 box of cigarettes (with a flip lid)... cigarettes for a giant perhaps!? Inside the box the biscuits are wrapped inside a foil packaging. The foil packaging was actually quite hard to get into - I had to use my teeth...

The biscuits are really thin and about 4 inches long. The majority of the biscuits are covered in milk chocolate but with about an inch of biscuit at the ends. The best word to describe them would be as sticks. I didn't count them but I think there are about 30 biscuits per box.

The fact they have a non-chocolate end is really good as it means your hands don't get messy which makes them good for when you're on the go and for kids. They are also removed from the box by the non-chocolate end.

As for the taste, well they are very nice actually. The biscuit tastes quite salty which I wasn't expecting, it reminded me of pretzels. They were quite crunchy all the way through. The chocolate was also nice but there wasn't much of it - it was spread very thinly and rather ungenerously so there wasn't a massive amount of taste to it. I suppose if I would have sucked the sticks I would have probably tasted more of the chocolate, but no sucking took place - it was all about munching through them at quite a fast pace!

Because the sticks are so thin you get through them really quickly and they don't fill you up at all. I was quite happy to learn that there are only 11 calories per biscuit (and 0.5g of fat) but it took me half the box for my tummy to feel satisfied, which equals at about 150 or so calories!

Mikado is available at Tesco and Sainsburys for £1.19 which I personally think is too overpriced for what they are.

They are also available in 3 x 39g boxes from certain places.

Ingredients include milk chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, glucose syrup, butter, soya lecithin), flavouring (vanillin), wheat flour, sugar, vegetable oil ,lactose and milk proteins, salt, raising agent and yeast. They are suitable for vegetarians.

I would recommend Mikado to anybody that can get a good deal on them, who thinks they can stop at one or two, or who has a stomach the size of mouse!

Summary: Nice but don't buy the hype.