Open Secret Healthy Digestive Biscuit High Fibre

Open Secret's digestive is made from whole wheat flour, rice bran oil and coarse wheat bran. It is sweetened with pulverised sugar, liquid glucose and malt extract and finished with skimmed milk powder and a milk, vanilla and ghee flavouring.

CleanPlate scores it CB3. The C for nutrition is middling: 6.5 g fibre per 100 g; its 7 g of protein earns no credit because it is under 2.75 g per 100 kcal. The B for ingredients reflects a mix of whole and refined ingredients (led by whole wheat flour, rice bran oil and coarse wheat bran), with additives that cost points: sodium metabisulphite. The 3 for risk comes mainly from saturated fat (6 g per 100 g) and free sugar (11 g per 100 g).

Whole wheat flour, rice bran oil, coarse wheat bran, pulverised sugar, liquid glucose, malt extract, soy lecithin, "Solbake", skimmed milk powder, salt, raising agent (ammonium and sodium bicarbonate), the antioxidant sodium metabisulphate and natural and nature-identical flavourings. No percentages are declared.

Per 100 g: 484 kcal, 19.5 g fat of which 6 g saturated, 13 g sugar of which 11 g added, 6.5 g fibre, 7 g protein, 110 mg sodium. The antioxidant is printed "sodium metabisulphate"; we read it as the sulphite sodium metabisulphite (INS 223). "Solbake" is listed without explanation.