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 salt. Dried whey, oatmeal, cultured skimmed milk and/or emulsifiers such as DATEM may also be added in some varieties.
Digestive biscuits outside the United States, like many foods, are not reliant on the addition of high-fructose corn syrup (sometimes referred to as "glucose-fructose syrup"), and hence may add more natural sugar instead, such as in New Zealand or in the United Kingdom.
A digestive biscuit averages around 70 calories, although this sometimes varies according to the factors involved in its production.
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