Bourbon Chocolate Digestive Biscuits

The digestive biscuit is a British format — a semi-sweet whole wheat biscuit developed in the 19th century, named after the digestive properties once attributed to the bicarbonate of soda used as a leavening agent.

It became one of the most widely consumed biscuit styles in the world, and the chocolate-coated version — one side dipped in milk chocolate — is the format most people encounter first.

Bourbon’s version takes that established format and refines it for the Japanese market.

The biscuit uses whole wheat flour, wheat bran, and defatted wheat germ alongside standard wheat flour — a grain composition that delivers the characteristic earthiness and faint nuttiness of a proper digestive, with more dietary fiber than a refined-flour biscuit would provide.

The texture is firm and slightly crumbly: the kind of biscuit that holds together cleanly under the chocolate coating rather than crumbling at the first bite, with enough structural integrity to make the half-coating practical rather than decorative.

The chocolate is applied as a half-coat — one face of each biscuit covered, the other left bare — which is the format that lets you choose how much chocolate you get in each bite depending on which way you hold it.

The chocolate is mild and rounded, built on cacao mass and whole milk powder, calibrated to complement the biscuit’s grain character rather than overwhelm it.

Sixteen pieces per pack.

The version that tends to appeal to people who find most Japanese biscuits too sweet, and who want something with genuine whole grain character under the chocolate.

About this item
Item Name : Choco Digestive Biscuits
Brand : Bourbon
Item Form : Biscuit
Number of Items : 16 Counts (Box of 1)