Bisk Farm Marie Biscuits — ENGINEERED
Munch or Dump rates Bisk Farm Marie Biscuits by Bisk Farm ENGINEERED — score 30/90.
A refined-flour tea biscuit sweetened four different ways and built on the hyper-palatable triad of refined flour, sugar, and refined oil, with emulsifiers and a dough conditioner. NOVA 4 ultra-processed.
Why this verdict
- Four distinct sweeteners stacked: sugar, invert syrup, liquid glucose, condensed milk
- Hyper-palatable triad: refined wheat flour + added sugar + refined vegetable oil
- Emulsifiers (471, 481) plus a sulphite dough conditioner (223) engineer the texture
- Added artificial flavouring substances
- NOVA 4 ultra-processed, blood-sugar spiking refined carbs
Ingredients (14)
- Wheat Flour (65%) (moderate) — Refined flour adding starch and bulk, low nutritional value.
- Sugar (concerning) — Added refined sugar, listed high - spikes blood sugar with no nutrition.
- Edible vegetable oil (moderate) — Unspecified refined oil used for deep-frying. Adds a lot of fat and calories; frying lentils makes them oily and calorie-dense.
- invert syrup (concerning) — A second free-sugar source for sweetness and browning.
- Liquid glucose (concerning) — A second refined sweetener; rapidly absorbed sugar that adds to the glycemic hit.
- Condensed Milk (moderate) — Sweetened milk; adds yet more sugar plus dairy fat.
- Salt (moderate) — Added sodium for flavour.
- Milk Solids (moderate) — Dairy base; adds protein and fat but heavily concentrated and calorie-dense in this format.
- Leavening Agents (500, 503) (safe) — Baking soda/ammonium carbonate raising agents; benign in these amounts.
- Emulsifiers (471, 481) (moderate) — Mono/diglycerides and sodium stearoyl lactylate; processing aids that smooth texture, a marker of ultra-processing.
- Dough conditioner (223) (concerning) — Sodium metabisulphite, a sulphite that can trigger reactions in sensitive people; industrial dough additive.
- enzymes (safe) — Rennet/enzymes coagulate the milk into curds. A traditional, harmless cheesemaking agent.
- Antioxidant (319) (moderate) — TBHQ, a synthetic antioxidant to keep the oil from going rancid.
- Added Artificial Flavouring (milk, butter, vanilla) (moderate) — Synthetic flavours mimicking dairy and vanilla; engineered palatability.