World's most boring biscuit, buy boy is it good for cheese! (Sainsbury's Basics Digestive Biscuits)

Member Name: bruffyboy

Product:	Sainsbury's Basics Digestive Biscuits
Date:	02/06/09 (48 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: great for cheese

Disadvantages: boring on its own

As a young boy, I often had to stay with my aunty who had a cool looking biscuit jar, but all it was filled with was digestives  It used to drive me crazy, and I would rather go without than take them. These days, I'm not much different when it comes to a biscuit for dunking into a brew, but for bases on cheesecakes, or eating with some cheese, you can't beat them.

A digestive biscuit is so called because it was at first believed they helped you with your digestion, but this was later proven to be untrue! Anyway, what are they? They are made of coarse brown wheat flour (which is where the unique look and taste comes from), as well as the usual sugar, vegetable oil, wholemeal and high-fructose corn syrup. Because of these ingredients, the biscuit is only semi-sweet, meaning it won't appeal to those who want something sweet (like when I was little). However, this also makes it the ideal companion for something like cheese, as the biscuits don't have an overpowering taste, and allow you to enjoy the flavour of the topping.

At 31p for a 400 gram pack, these are as cheap as they come, and Sainsburys have done a great job with them. I honestly don't think there is any difference between these and the expensive ones. The texture is crumbly and dry, the taste is semi-sweet and has the distinct brown wheat flour taste. The look is the usual dark brown, and like I said they're not recognisably different in any way from the main brand.

Nutritionally, and this is just per biscuit: 88 calories, 4.3g fat, 4.7g sugars. That's just crazy when you think about how easy it is to pack a half dozen biscuits. In fact, if you were to eat around 25 of these, that would be your whole day's allowance of calories. To me, they're not nice enough to warrant that sort of nutritional overload, and it's just the fats that are doing it (it's not like there's any chocolate on them!)

For those who want something a bit sweeter, Sainsbury's do the same biscuits but covered in milk chocolate too!

Summary: do it