McVitie’s’ new slimmer chocolate biscuits are more fattening and twice as expensive as the originals
Research from consumer group Which? shows that a biscuit from the Nibbles range has 77 per cent more saturated fat than a normal chocolate digestive.
RESEARCHERS have claimed that thinner varieties of McVitie's chocolate biscuits have more calories and cost more money than normal ones do.
Consumer group Which? said the biscuits in the Nibbles and Thins contained, gram for gram, more calories, saturated fat, and sugar.
The Nibbles range sells for £1.59 and the Thins range for £1.70 which is double the price of the £1.55 milk chocolate digestives when pack sizes are compared.
The biscuit company make clear that the products, which are smaller in size than the normal bic, are an indulgent treat.
The research by Which? showed that eating a biscuit from the McVitie’s Digestive Nibbles range would mean eating 77 per cent more saturated fat than one from the normal pack.
It would also mean eating 25 per cent more sugar and contains only two-thirds of the fibre a normal biscuit has.
Which? said: “McVities makes clear that its biscuits are an indulgent treat, but it’s always worth keeping an eye on how much you eat.
“While the price of each pack might look similar similar, once you compare pack sizes, Thins and Nibbles end up being twice the price of the digestives.”
McVitie’s started producing chocolate digestives in 1925, and today more than 71 million packets of their treats are eaten in the UK every year.
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