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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Sarah Butler

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit … look away now

McVitie's orange Club biscuit
McVitie's Club biscuits now have a ‘chocolate flavour coating’ after a recipe change. Photograph: Lenscap/Alamy

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit you can no longer join our Club or pick up a Penguin, as the lunchbox favourites have reduced the amount of cocoa in their recipe so much they are now only “chocolate flavour”.

The two snacks, both made by McVitie’s, changed their recipes earlier this year amid soaring cocoa prices – which have prompted manufacturers to try a number of different tactics to keep prices down.

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