Glico Bisco Cream Sandwich Biscuit Fermented Butter

The original Bisco has been the same red box since 1933. The Fermented Butter edition is what happens when that foundation is handed to a richer ingredient and asked to do something more grown-up with it.

Fermented butter — hakkō bātā — is not ordinary butter.

It is butter made from cream that has been cultured before churning, a process that developed in European dairy traditions and produces a depth of flavor that fresh butter cannot replicate: complex, slightly tangy, with a richness that lingers and a fragrance that announces itself before the first bite.

It is the ingredient that separates an everyday biscuit from one worth paying attention to. Here it works in both directions at once.

The biscuit dough itself is made with fermented butter, which gives the outer layer a warmth and a rounded savory quality that the standard Bisco does not have — the characteristic crisp snap of the roller-pressed layers now carrying something more substantial beneath it.

The cream inside is built on buttermilk powder, vanilla bean seeds, and whole milk powder, producing a filling that is smooth, gently fragrant, and dairy-rich in a way that feels less like a children’s snack and more like something from a bakery that takes its ingredients seriously.

The lactic acid bacteria — spore-type, over 100 million per serving, designed to reach the intestines alive — are present as in every Bisco. Calcium, vitamins B1, B2, and D remain accounted for.

The health credentials that have made Bisco a family staple for nearly a century are intact. What the Fermented Butter edition adds is the sense that this particular Bisco was made with a little more intention than usual.

About this item
Item Name : Bisco Fermented Butter
Brand : Glico
Item Form : Biscuit
Number of Items : 15 Counts (Pack of 1)