My personal favourite is the Dark Chocolate Digestive. I could inhale half a pack in one sitting without trying. Paige’s recipe is simple and accessible to follow, so why wouldn’t I try it?

(The presence of fats and additives means a dark chocolate digestive scores a ‘bad ... who claimed the bicarbonate of soda present in the recipe aided digestion). Either way, McVitie ...

who said he eats digestives with the chocolate on top. McVities, which first began as a small shop on Edinburgh’s Rose Street in 1839, developed the recipe for its digestive biscuits in 1892 ...

The chocolate digestive was launched about a quarter of a century after the plain variety, whose name was inspired by the belief that the baking powder in the recipe would help with digestion.