I picked up packets of digestives from seven supermarket shelves to see if any could rival the original and save some money.

A packet of Digestive biscuits will be shrunk by 20%, going from 500g to 400g. That’s the equivalent of removing seven biscuits. That’s a move from 34 biscuits in a pack down to 27.

Tesco Digestives cost 60p for a 400g packet of 28 biscuits, which works out to 15p per 100g. These were the palest and smallest of all the biscuits and said 'Sweetmeal Digestive Sweetmeal' on the top.

There will be three fewer digestive biscuits in a packet of McVite's. Photograph: iStock . Conor Pope. Thu Mar 09 2023 - 11:07.

Most commonly digestive biscuits are associated with McVities, although they didn't develop their popular recipe for them until 1892. The first-ever digestives were developed in 1839.

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Tesco Digestives cost 60p for a 400g packet of 28 biscuits, which works out to 15p per 100g. These were the palest and smallest of all the biscuits and said 'Sweetmeal Digestive Sweetmeal' on the top.