McVities Digestive biscuits 2019 recipe changed?

[hammondlake2]

I read comments online that McVitties changed their digestive recipe for the worse, but I cannot be sure. I used to like them more than now, but that was when I was younger and when food tasted differently, I suppose that I had different expectations.

Around that time, when I was younger, I used to have a diabetic friend and he would eat a handful of them each day because of his condition, so I suppose that if anybody would know it would be the diabetic community?

With the UK presently in two trillion of debt something had to give, and I suspect the recipe has been tweaked, but can anybody confirm if they used to be better please, preferably somebody who did not have such a long hiatus from the biscuit as myself.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Deleted member 308541]

Mcvities Digestives Biscuits Plain Original 400g

Product Details
The Original Delicious Wheat Biscuits

Made in the United Kingdom from local and imported ingredients

Ingredients

Wheat Flour (52%) (Wheat Flour, Calcium, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Palm Oil, Sugar, Wholemeal Wheat Flour (12%), Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup, Raising Agents (Sodium Bicarbonate), Salt, Acidity Regulator (Malic Acid)

Nutrition Information

Servings per package: 27
Serving size: 14.8g
Nutrition Avg Qty Per Serving Avg Qty Per 100g
Energy 299kj 2017kj
Protein 1.0g 6.9g
Fat, total 3.2g 21.8g
– saturated 1.5g 10.3g
Carbohydrate 9.3g 62.7g
– sugars 2.5g 16.8g
Sodium 88.8mg 600mg
Further nutritional information may be displayed on back of pack.

Allergen

Gluten

Allergen may be present

Milk

This list say it's the original recipe, whether it is or not I would not have a clue.

They are available from our local shop here in Bundy.

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/294160/mcvities-digestives-biscuits-plain-original

 

[Guzzler]

What? Do you have Diabetes?

 

[Juicyj]

I used to have a diabetic friend and he would eat a handful of them each day because of his condition

Hello @hammondlake2 I think I am more alarmed that your 'diabetic' friend would eat a handful of them because of his condition ??

I would consider eating one to treat a hypo as they contain 10g of carb but would never eat them for the sake of eating them, they would raise my blood glucose levels to alarming heights if not managed correctly with insulin.

 

[EllieM]

This list say it's the original recipe, whether it is or not I would not have a clue.

Interesting that they are saying 9.3g per biscuit. When I memorised my blue book of "carbohydrate values of proprietary foods" back in the early 70s, the figure was definitely 10g. Pretty sure I would have remembered 9 if that had been the case. I wonder if they are now slightly smaller?

 

[Deleted member 308541]

I wonder if they are now slightly smaller?

Most probably, I have not eaten those biscuits for years so do not really know.

 

[hammondlake2]

I am no expert, only that he would have the daily privilege to do so at school. I expected this then to be commonplace in the diabetic community.

I therefore believed that folk would know if the taste had degraded over the years?

 

[bulkbiker]

I am no expert, only that he would have the daily privilege to do so at school. I expected this then to be commonplace in the diabetic community.

I therefore believed that folk would know if the taste had degraded over the years?

Depending on the type of diabetes biscuits could literally be a lifesaver or a contributor to early death, amputation or blindness so it depends a lot on where abouts on the insulin producing spectrum your friend was.
Also as with most manufactured food recipe changes are introduced over time so the customers don't really notice changes. So you'd need to compare digestives from 40 years ago to now to get a proper comparison.. and i doubt that the 40 year old ones would taste great today..

 

[hammondlake2]

Perhaps my tastes have changed significantly over time, probably.

I don't think they're as good now.

 

[lucylocket61]

Perhaps my tastes have changed significantly over time, probably.

I don't think they're as good now.

they now use palm oil, that makes a difference to the taste. According to my husband palm oil gives a slick feel to things.

 

[ringi]

Interesting that they are saying 9.3g per biscuit. When I memorised my blue book of "carbohydrate values of proprietary foods" back in the early 70s, the figure was definitely 10g. Pretty sure I would have remembered 9 if that had been the case.

Did the book round to the nearest 5 to make it easier to remember?

 

[EllieM]

Did the book round to the nearest 5 to make it easier to remember?

I don't think so. I think there were figures of 16 and 17 in the book. (Maybe a penguin was 16g???) But honestly, this was almost 50 years ago so you could be right....
Thinking back, I remember a cadbury's chocolate finger as 4 and the internet says 3.8, so probably they only rounded to nearest whole number.

 

[porl69]

I don't think so. I think there were figures of 16 and 17 in the book. (Maybe a penguin was 16g???) But honestly, this was almost 50 years ago so you could be right....
Thinking back, I remember a cadbury's chocolate finger as 4 and the internet says 3.8, so probably they only rounded to nearest whole number.

They used to round up to the nearest whole number...

As for the taste.....I think they taste pretty much the same as they always used to!?
Will pretty much agree with @Juicyj about your friend eating them as part of her diabetes condition!!!??? Never heard of that before!

 

[Deleted member 308541]

I noticed that two packets of McVities dark chocolate digestives got on to our online shopping order yesterday, apparently one of our grandsons put it on the list when he was looking over my partners shoulder and casually mentioned post 2 of mine in this thread and followed the link.

I used to like them years ago in the UK pre 1970.

 

[uchitermon]

Only Diabetics were allowed two digestives at supper time in Burton hospital

 

[JohnEGreen]

Only Diabetics were allowed two digestives at supper time in Burton hospital

Only T1's or maybe insulin dependent T2's in order to avoid night time hypos.

When last in hospital I was not afforded the choice but always managed to sneak a biscuit off the trolley.

 

[JohnRichard]

I'm T2 diabetic and my wife enjoys McVities Digestives and she says they have changed. She says they've gone thinner and taste totally different compared to about a year or so.