Consumption
Digestive biscuits are frequently eaten with tea or coffee. Sometimes, the biscuit is dunked into the tea and eaten quickly due to the biscuit's tendency to disintegrate when wet.
The digestive biscuit is also used as a cracker with cheeses, and is often included in 'cracker selection' packets.
In the UK alone, the annual sales of chocolate digestives total about £35 million. This means that each year, 71 million packets of these are sold - and each second 52 biscuits are consumed. Digestives are also popular in food preparation for making into bases for cheesecakes and similar desserts.
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