{"id":420118,"date":"2026-04-27T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420118\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T14:53:13","slug":"the-supermarket-chocolate-digestives-taste-test-the-price-is-significantly-higher-than-the-own-brand-options-and-most-of-our-testers-could-not-tell-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/420118\/","title":{"rendered":"The supermarket chocolate digestives taste test: \u2018The price is significantly higher than the own-brand options, and most of our testers could not tell the difference\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We try some of the best \u2013 and worst \u2013 versions on the market\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Supermarket taste test\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8b42bbd1-218d-4917-a39c-8d7ea4639a56.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Supermarket taste test<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It may not be the most exciting biscuit on the supermarket shelf, but there is something comforting about a chocolate digestive. Fun fact: digestives were originally developed by Scottish doctors in the mid-19th century to aid digestion, hence the name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One or two with a cup of tea \u2013 they are at their best when dunked \u2013 is a modest little treat that punctuates the day in a way that doesn\u2019t feel overly indulgent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We try some of the best \u2013 and worst \u2013 versions on the market Supermarket taste test It&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,3412],"class_list":["post-420118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-katy-mcguinness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}