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• How do digestive biscuits taste? Compared to most cookies, digestives are pretty tame in terms of sweetness, but you wouldn't call them bland. I'd almost say they've got a nourishing quality to them, even if they're pretty much just cookies.
• Ingredients. The typical digestive biscuit contains coarse brown wheat flour (which gives it its distinctive texture and flavour), sugar, malt extract, vegetable oil, wholemeal, raising agents (usually sodium bicarbonate, tartaric acid and malic acid), and
• The “digestive” part of digestive biscuits makes these cookies sound like somewhat of a health food. But the name actually refers to one of the crucial ingredients in the batter, sodium bicarbonate (aka baking soda), which is also known to briefly alleviat