Digestive
The term digestive ( English digestive biscuit , literally " digestive biscuit ") describes a biscuit product that originally came from what is now the United Kingdom and is only slightly sweetened . Digestives are often served with coffee or tea and traditionally dipped into the tea.
history
Digestives were developed by two Scottish doctors in 1839 to improve digestion . Huntley & Palmers was one of the original producers .
The graham cracker from the United States is similar to the digestive in terms of ingredients and consistency.
ingredients
Commercially available digestives contain wheat flour (sometimes wholemeal flour), vegetable oil, sugar, glucose syrup, raising agents and salt. A biscuit is typically around 70 kcal. There are variants, for example with chocolate icing or gluten-free biscuits based on the digestive.
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credentials
- ↑ a b Chocolate digestive is nation's favorite dunking biscuit. In: Telegraph.co.uk. March 2, 2009. Retrieved October 28, 2017 .