Ingredients (in order of greatest quantity first)
Wheat flour
This is normal flour you would use in baking.
Sugar
Not an enormous amount of sugar. Per 13.5g biscuit (which is four of the little characters which you break off into separate biscuits) you will get 3.8g, which is just under a teaspoon of sugar.
Vegetable fats (antioxidant 307b, soy)
Not sure what vegetable oils are used but it comes with tocopherols (307b), which are natural fat-soluble antioxidants also known as Vitamin E and soy.
Emulsifiers (492, soy lecithin)
These are sorbitan tristearate (492) and soy lecithin, which is a natural substand.
Food acid (citric acid)
This is citric acid, a natural substance found in citrus fruit.
Milk solids
This will probably be in here for flavouring and is what you get when you take the water out of milk.
Natural flavours
These biscuits have a strawberry flavour which traditionally attracts artificial flavouring, so it is lovely to see that Griffins have gone to the trouble of getting a natural flavour in here.
Invert syrup
This is a liquid form of sugar probably used in the pink icing.
Glucose syrup
Another liquid form of syrup, probably in the icing.
Salt
You will get 38mg of sodium per 13.5g biscuit.
Emulsifier (soy lecithin)
This will be in the icing.
Raising agents (450, baking soda)
These are diphosphates (450) which are salts of phosphoric acid and baking soda.
Natural colour (carmine)
This is a very traditional natural pink colour used for many years in baking. Unfortunately it does involve the squashing of insects.
My recommendations
These are absolutely fine for a treat for the kids. They have no artificial colours or flavours and the kids will have fun snapping the characters apart. Ours, rather disappointingly, were already broken, so Griffins may want to review its packaging.
Highlights
• No artificial flavours or colours.
• Just under a teaspoon of sugar per 13.5g biscuit.
• Dubious but entirely possible craft project.
