# Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits, 140g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £1.80 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/jammie-dodgers-mango-and-passionfruit-flavour-biscuits-140g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/jammie-dodgers-mango-and-passionfruit-flavour-biscuits-140g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Jammie Dodgers **Price:** £1.80 GBP **GTIN:** 072417336621 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits is the tropical version of the heart-window shortcake sandwich, two soft rounds pressed together with a bright fruit centre, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the sharper alternative to the raspberry original.Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Passionfruit does the cutting and mango does the rounding off, which makes this the one Dodger that argues with a strong tannic mug. Brew lighter than usual, or pour a green tea instead.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Storage notes and dunking guidance are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits is the tropical reading of a biscuit almost everyone in Britain can picture without being shown one: two rounds of soft shortcake pressed together with a fruit centre, and a heart cut out of the top round so you can see what is inside before you commit. What changes here is only the middle, and it changes more than it sounds like it should. The Taste Profile Mango and passionfruit centre: ●●●●○ (4/5) Bright and slightly sharp, with the passionfruit doing the cutting and the mango doing the rounding off. It reads more sherbet than jam, which is the surprise. Shortcake rounds: ●●●●○ (4/5) Soft and sandy rather than snappy, and built to crumble at the edges rather than break in a clean line. Sweetness: ●●●●○ (4/5) High, and higher than the raspberry version tastes, because tropical fruit flavours read sweeter even at the same sugar. Worth knowing before you put three on a plate. Snap: ●●○○○ (2/5) Low on purpose. A filled shortcake gives rather than cracks, which is why it is a poor dunker and a very good biscuit to eat slowly. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.4 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk The Story Behind The Pack The format is older than the flavour by a very long way. A jam sandwich biscuit with a window cut in the lid is Victorian in spirit, and the modern version has been a fixture of British biscuit tins for decades. The window exists for a practical reason as well as a decorative one: it lets steam out during the bake so the top round sits flat instead of doming over a wet filling, and it tells you at a glance which flavour you have picked up. On this pack the centre shows through as a deep golden orange rather than the familiar red, which is the clearest signal that you are not holding the standard one. Tropical flavours in a British biscuit usually fail by going so soft and generic that the result tastes of nothing more specific than sugar. The balance here leans on passionfruit for the sharp edge and mango for the body behind it, which is a sensible division of labour, because mango on its own is too gentle to be noticed against shortcake and passionfruit on its own is too aggressive to sit next to butter. The declaration for the filling, along with the nutrition panel and the allergen statement, is printed on the current UK pack; we describe how it eats and leave the composition to the pack itself. The tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Our Commitment To The Planet The pack that arrives is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market. A filled shortcake stales more slowly than a thin crisp biscuit, because the centre holds moisture, so a 140g pack opened on Monday is still worth eating on Friday. How Does Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits, 140g Compare to: Jammie Dodgers Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, 140g: the original, and the one to buy if you want the biscuit you remember. Jammie Dodgers Minis Raspberry Flavour Biscuits, 6 Snack Packs: the same idea in sealed portion bags rather than one open pack. Buy the minis when the biscuits are leaving the house in a bag, and this one when they are staying in the tin. Ideal Brewing Conditions Sharp fruit and strong tea fight each other. That is the single thing worth knowing before you make the cup, and it is why this biscuit behaves so differently from a plain shortcake next to the same pot. Tannin in a well-brewed black tea and acidity in a passionfruit filling hit the same part of the palate, and putting them together gives you a cup that tastes thin and a biscuit that tastes sour. Go lighter than instinct suggests, or pick a green tea instead. The Everyday Mug Brew: A standard black tea, one bag per 200ml at a full boil, but pull it at two and a half minutes rather than four. You want colour and body without the full tannin load. Milk: Yes, and more than you would normally use. Milk fat is the buffer that stops the fruit and the tannin meeting head on. Dunk: One second, or not at all. The heart-shaped window is an open door for hot tea and the filling softens faster than the rounds do. Count: Two. The sweetness is high enough that a third stops being a pleasure and starts being a decision. The Green Tea Route Brew: A plain green tea at 80 degrees for two minutes, no milk. Under-boiled water is the whole trick; a scalded green tea turns bitter and you lose the point of the pairing. Why it works: Green tea brings grassy sweetness and almost no tannin, so the passionfruit has nothing to fight and the mango finally gets heard behind it. Alternative: A warm fruit infusion does the same job. Result: The same biscuit tasting rounder and less sharp, which is the clearest demonstration of how much the drink is doing. Brewing Notes For Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits, 140g Water temperature: Full boil for black tea, 80 degrees for green. The biscuit is not fragile; the tea is the thing that needs the care. Measure: One bag per 200ml and two biscuits per person. Steep: Two and a half minutes for black tea rather than the usual four, so the tannin stays out of the way of the fruit. Service: Milk yes, sugar no. There is more than enough sugar in the biscuit already. Dunk: One second at most. The window lets liquid straight into the centre. Iced version: Very good. Unsweetened iced black tea over plenty of ice suits a sharp tropical filling better than any hot cup does. Best with: A light green tea, a warm fruit infusion, or a milky, briefly brewed builder's mug. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change. Storage: Reseal the film or move the biscuits to a tin, and keep them cool and dry. The centre holds moisture, so these stale more slowly than a thin crisp biscuit, but a warm cupboard makes the filling tacky. Child Safety: Keep the kettle and the hot mug out of reach of children while you brew. ## Product Questions How is it different from the raspberry one?The filling is sharper and it takes over more of the biscuit. Passionfruit brings an acidity the raspberry version does not have, and mango sits behind it with the body. Raspberry reads as jam against butter; this reads closer to sherbet against butter. Can I dunk it?Barely. One second is the limit and even that is optimistic. The heart-shaped window in the top round is an open door for hot tea, and the centre softens well before the shortcake does. This is a biscuit to eat beside a mug rather than in it. What tea goes with it?Go lighter than instinct says. A green tea at 80 degrees for two minutes is the best match, because it has almost no tannin to fight the fruit. If you want black tea, pull the bag at two and a half minutes and use a generous amount of milk. How many biscuits are in the pack?The count is not given in the published pack listing, so we state none. The number is printed on the current UK pack. Why is there a hole in the top biscuit?It is practical as well as decorative. The window lets steam escape during the bake so the top round sits flat rather than doming over a wet centre, and it shows you the flavour before you pick the biscuit up. On this one the centre reads deep golden orange rather than red. How sweet is it?High, and it tastes higher than the raspberry version even though both are sandwich biscuits, because tropical fruit flavours read sweeter on the palate. Two is a sensible number. Three is a decision. How should I store it once open?Reseal the film or move the biscuits to a tin, somewhere cool and dry. The centre holds moisture so these stale more slowly than a thin crisp biscuit, but heat makes the filling tacky and the rounds heavy. Does it work with iced tea?Better than with hot tea, in fact. Unsweetened iced black tea over plenty of ice keeps the tannin cold and quiet, and cold liquid does not soften the filling the way a hot mug does. Is it good in a lunchbox?It survives better than a coated biscuit because there is nothing on the outside to melt, but the rounds are soft and they break. Use a rigid tub, or buy the sealed mini packs instead if the biscuits are going into a bag every day. Can I bake with them?Yes, as a topping rather than a base. Broken into quarters over a set cheesecake or pressed into buttercream they hold their shape and the window shows. Do not crush them for a base: the filling smears and the crumb will not stay crisp. ## Ingredients & Nutrition ComponentProportionWhat it bringsShortcake roundsthe bodySoft and sandy rather than snappy. They crumble at the edge instead of breaking cleanly, which is what makes the biscuit pleasant to eat slowly and hopeless to dunk.Mango and passionfruit centrethe middle layerPassionfruit supplies the sharp edge and mango the rounder body behind it. Together they read closer to sherbet than to jam, and they are what makes this version argue with a strong tannic cup.The windowcut in the top roundLets steam out during the bake so the lid sits flat, and shows the filling before you pick the biscuit up. Here it reads deep golden orange rather than the familiar red.Pack weight140g The biscuit count is not given in the published pack listing and we state none.Pack: Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits, 140g; a sealed film pack of filled shortcake sandwich biscuits. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best resealed or tinned once opened.Sourcing & blend. Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits, 140g comes from a brand built on a single idea executed the same way every time: two rounds of soft shortcake, a fruit centre, and a heart cut out of the lid. The format is older than any of the flavour variants by a long way, and a jam sandwich biscuit with a window in the top has been a fixture of British biscuit tins for decades. What changes between the packs is only the middle, which is why the tropical version is worth treating as a genuinely different biscuit rather than a repainted one: the acidity in a passionfruit filling does something to a sweet shortcake that raspberry never does. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe.What is in Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits, 140g, and what is not:In: filled shortcake sandwich biscuits with a mango and passionfruit flavour centre, in a single sealed 140g pack.Not a dunking biscuit: the window in the lid lets hot liquid straight into the centre, which is an editorial description of how it behaves rather than a claim off the pack. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits, 140g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains why this version behaves so differently beside a cup of tea from the one most people know.The whole outside of the biscuit is shortcake, so that is what reaches you first: a soft, sandy, faintly caramelised smell with nothing sharp about it. The fruit is sealed in the middle and only really announces itself once the biscuit is broken or bitten, which is a genuine piece of engineering rather than an accident. It also means the aroma tells you almost nothing about which flavour you are holding. The window does that job instead, and on this pack the centre shows through deep golden orange rather than red.The flavour spike is the centre, and it is sharper than the format has any right to be. Passionfruit carries a real acidity, and acidity against butter is a much livelier combination than jam against butter. Mango sits underneath as body and roundness, doing the work that stops the passionfruit from being merely sour. The order matters: the sharpness lands first and the sweetness catches up a beat later, which is why the biscuit reads closer to sherbet than to jam and why the sweetness feels higher here than in the raspberry version even eaten side by side. This is also the layer that decides what to drink with it, because acidity and tea tannin both work on the same part of the palate and neither of them gives way.The base structure is soft rather than crisp, and that governs the finish. The rounds compress under the teeth instead of shattering, so the crumb lingers and coats a little, and the fruit stays with you for several seconds after the biscuit has gone. A crisp biscuit clears the mouth and leaves it ready for the next sip; this one does not, which is exactly why a second biscuit tastes less bright than the first. Give it a moment, or a mouthful of tea, before you reach for another.Getting it right in the cup. Brew lighter than you would for a plain biscuit. A standard black tea at a full boil pulled at two and a half minutes rather than four gives you colour and body without the full tannin load, and it takes more milk than usual because milk fat is the buffer that keeps the fruit and the tannin apart. No sugar; there is plenty in the biscuit. The better answer is to change the drink altogether: a plain green tea at 80 degrees for two minutes has almost no tannin to fight the filling, and suddenly the mango is audible behind the passionfruit instead of buried under a struggle. A warm fruit infusion does the same job and suits an afternoon better. If you are dunking, one second, and accept that the window is an open door.How water and temperature change it. Two different things are at work here and both of them are about moisture. On the biscuit side, the filling holds water, so a filled shortcake stales more slowly than a thin crisp biscuit and an opened pack is still worth eating several days later. Heat is the real enemy rather than air: a warm cupboard makes the centre tacky and the rounds heavy, so store cool and dry and resist the shelf above the kettle. On the drink side, hard water pushes a black tea harder and drags more tannin out in the same time, which is the one thing this biscuit cannot cope with. In a hard-water area shorten the steep by another thirty seconds rather than adding milk to fix it afterwards, or brew the green tea instead, where the effect is much smaller. Cold changes everything in the biscuit's favour: iced black tea keeps the tannin quiet and does not soften the centre, which makes it the best hot-weather pairing this biscuit has. ## Recipe Ideas Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit Flavour Biscuits, 140g is soft, sharp and sweeter than it looks, which makes the drink beside it matter more than usual. Recipes, born here first The Light Black Mug How to make The Light Black Mug with Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit. 4 min 1 serving Easy You'll need 2 biscuits 1 bag standard black tea 200ml water at a full boil Milk, generously Method Brew one bag in 200ml straight off the boil and pull it at two and a half minutes, not four. You want colour, not tannin. Add more milk than you normally would. The fat is what keeps the fruit and the tannin from meeting head on. Skip the sugar entirely. The biscuit has it covered. Eat beside the mug rather than dunking. One second in the tea is the absolute limit. What you'll end up with: A tea break where the fruit and the cup are not fighting, which is not what happens if you brew this one the usual way. The Green Tea Pairing How to make The Green Tea Pairing with Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit. 3 min 1 serving Easy You'll need 2 biscuits 1 bag plain green tea 200ml water at 80 degrees Method Boil the kettle and let it stand for two minutes, or top it up with a splash of cold. Green tea scalded at a full boil turns bitter and the pairing collapses. Steep two minutes. No milk, no sugar. Taste the tea on its own first, then eat a biscuit, then go back to the tea. Notice the mango. It is audible here and almost inaudible beside a strong black mug. What you'll end up with: The best pairing this biscuit has, and the clearest proof of how much the drink changes the fruit. The Iced Afternoon How to make The Iced Afternoon with Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit. 5 min 2 servings Easy You'll need 4 biscuits 2 bags black tea A tall glass of ice A slice of lime, optional Method Brew two bags in 300ml for three minutes, then leave it to cool rather than pouring it hot over ice, which waters it down. Fill a tall glass with ice and pour the cooled tea over it. Add lime if you have it. It runs with the passionfruit rather than against it. Serve the biscuits on the side. Cold tea does not soften the centre the way a hot mug does. What you'll end up with: The hot-weather version of this pairing, and the one case where the sharp filling is doing all the work it should. Broken Over A Set Cheesecake How to make Broken Over A Set Cheesecake with Jammie Dodgers Mango & Passionfruit. 10 min 8 servings Medium You'll need 6 biscuits 1 set cheesecake, chilled A spoonful of warmed fruit puree, optional Method Chill the cheesecake fully. A soft top will swallow the biscuits instead of holding them. Break the biscuits into quarters by hand rather than crushing them. You want the window visible on at least some of the pieces. Press them in at an angle around the edge, upright rather than flat. Spoon a little warmed fruit puree into the centre if you want the tropical note to carry through the pudding as well as sit on top. What you'll end up with: A pudding that looks like it took longer than it did, with the filling showing through the windows. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._