McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g
Mint divides a household more sharply than anything else on this shelf. There is no middle position on it. People either reach for the mint one first or will not have mint anywhere near chocolate, and nothing written about the bar is going to move anybody from one camp to the other, so buy it knowing which camp the house is in. Past that, the thing to understand is the construction. The biscuit is enclosed rather than coated across one face, so chocolate meets the tongue on every side at once and there is no point in the bite where you taste biscuit on its own. That makes the biscuit structure rather than flavour, which is either the whole appeal or the whole complaint depending on who is holding it. It also means no crumb is exposed anywhere, so none of this is going to do anything beside a hot drink. The sealed wrapper is doing a different job entirely, keeping a bar whole in a bag or a drawer for as long as it stays shut. Milk in the covering and wheat in the biscuit, so it suits neither a dairy-free household nor a coeliac diet.
McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, in brief.
McVitie's Club Mint is the mint bar in the Club range, a biscuit carried inside a heavy chocolate covering rather than a biscuit with chocolate on one side, seven sealed bars at twenty-two grams each, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the cleanest of the heavily covered lunchbox bars.
The Club is built covering-first, with the biscuit acting as structure rather than flavour, and mint is the one addition that genuinely cuts a heavy covering rather than lightening it or doubling it. Eat it cool: mint fades faster in a warm bar than any other flavour on the shelf.
McVitie's Club Mint is the mint member of the Club range, a biscuit bar carried inside a heavy chocolate covering rather than a biscuit with chocolate on one side. Seven bars to the pack, twenty-two grams each, one hundred and fifty-four grams in total, every one sealed on its own.
The Club's defining feature has always been the weight of the covering. Most chocolate biscuits are a biscuit first with a coating added; the Club is built the other way round, with enough chocolate on it that the biscuit inside reads as the structure rather than the flavour. Putting mint into that is a deliberate correction. Mint cuts through heavy chocolate in a way that orange only lightens it and caramel only doubles it, which is why the mint version of almost every chocolate bar tastes less rich than the original rather than more.
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. Temperature, storage and why this bar will not take a dunk are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind McVitie's
McVitie's is a British biscuit house and the most familiar name on any UK biscuit aisle, best known for the digestive. The Club sits in the company's wrapped-bar half of the business rather than the tin-and-packet half, and it is built for a different occasion entirely: a lunchbox, a glovebox, a drawer at work. The range runs several flavours at the same weight, of which mint is the one that has been there longest in most people's memory.
The ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date must all be read off the current UK pack rather than taken from this page.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Count and weight: seven bars at twenty-two grams each, so one hundred and fifty-four grams in the pack.
- Seven, not five: a seven-bar pack is a working week with two spare, and that is not an accident. It is the standard unit for a lunchbox household rather than for one person.
- Individually sealed: nothing goes stale between Monday and Friday and nothing arrives crushed at the bottom of a bag, which is the whole argument for a multipack over a packet.
- A heavy covering: this is the Club's signature and it is the reason the bar behaves the way it does in a warm room and in a hot drink. More on both below.
- What it is not: not a dunking biscuit, not a dark chocolate product and not a mint cream. If you want a thin crisp mint, buy a mint thin instead.
Ideal Serving Conditions
Mint and temperature are more closely linked than any other flavour on a biscuit shelf. Cooling compounds read stronger when the bar itself is cool and almost disappear when it is warm, so a Club Mint eaten out of a hot car is a different and considerably worse product than the same bar out of a cold cupboard.
The Coffee Break Serve
- Cool first: straight from a cold cupboard, or twenty minutes in the fridge. This is the single change that makes the biggest difference to a mint bar.
- Black coffee: an unsweetened filter or espresso. Mint and coffee is an old pairing for good reason, and the bitterness carries the heavy covering.
- Do not dunk: a covered bar has no porous crumb to take liquid evenly. It softens from the outside in, the covering slides off and the biscuit collapses. This format simply does not take a dunk.
- Eat it in four: snap the bar rather than biting straight through. A heavy covering releases more slowly than the biscuit does and the pieces read cleaner.
The Pudding Serve
- Chopped over ice cream: mint chocolate over plain vanilla is the obvious build and it works because the bar supplies both the mint and the crunch.
- In a milkshake: two bars blitzed into cold milk with vanilla ice cream gives a mint chocolate shake with biscuit texture running through it.
- Through a fridge cake: the covering melts into the set mixture and the biscuit stays as bite, and the mint carries further in a cold set slab than it does in a baked one.
- With fresh raspberries: a sharp fruit against mint and heavy chocolate is a better plate than it sounds, and it stops the sweetness running away.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: black coffee first, strong unsweetened black tea second. Both supply the bitterness a heavily covered bar does not carry itself.
- Avoid: hot chocolate and sweetened lattes, which double the sweetness, and anything herbal and minty, which simply competes.
- Dunking: no. Eat it alongside.
- Storage: cool, dry and out of direct sun with the outer pack closed. Chocolate that has warmed and re-set shows a pale bloom, which is harmless but the snap does not return.
- Best with: a mid-morning coffee, a packed lunch, or the last half hour of a long drive.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind McVitie's
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McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g brings mint, chocolate and crunch in one sealed piece, which makes it more useful in a pudding than most covered bars. Six builds below cover the cold coffee break, a mint chocolate shake, an ice cream bowl, a fridge cake, a raspberry plate and a lunchbox routine that actually survives the week.
Made with this tea
The Cold Bar Coffee Break
How to make The Cold Bar Coffee Break with McVitie's Club Mint.
- 1 bar McVitie's Club Mint
- 1 filter coffee or espresso, unsweetened
- A glass of cold water
- Chill the bar for twenty minutes first. This is the single change that makes the biggest difference to a mint bar, and it costs nothing.
- Brew the coffee black and leave it unsweetened. The bar carries no bitterness of its own, so all of it has to come from the cup.
- Snap the bar into four and eat a piece between sips rather than in one go.
- Keep it out of the coffee. A fully covered bar does not dunk, and the covering will end up on the surface of the cup.
What you'll end up with: The pairing the mint version was built for.
Mint Chocolate Biscuit Shake
How to make Mint Chocolate Biscuit Shake with McVitie's Club Mint.
- 2 bars McVitie's Club Mint
- 300ml cold whole milk
- 4 scoops vanilla ice cream
- A handful of ice
- Break the bars into a blender and keep back a quarter of one for the top.
- Blitz with the milk, ice cream and ice for about twenty seconds, no longer. You want biscuit texture through it rather than a smooth drink.
- Pour into two tall glasses and crush the reserved piece over the top.
What you'll end up with: A mint chocolate shake that tastes of a biscuit rather than of syrup, because the mint is coming from a bar rather than a bottle.
Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream Bowl
How to make Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream Bowl with McVitie's Club Mint.
- 2 bars McVitie's Club Mint, chilled
- 8 scoops vanilla ice cream
- A handful of fresh raspberries
- Chop the chilled bars into rough pieces with a heavy knife. Cold bars shatter cleanly; warm ones smear.
- Scoop the ice cream and scatter the biscuit over the top rather than stirring it through.
- Finish with raspberries, which stop the sweetness running away.
What you'll end up with: Mint choc chip built from a bar, with proper biscuit crunch that no tub version manages.
Mint Fridge Cake Squares
How to make Mint Fridge Cake Squares with McVitie's Club Mint.
- 4 bars McVitie's Club Mint
- 200g dark chocolate
- 80g butter
- 2 tablespoons golden syrup
- Chop the bars into rough pieces and set them aside.
- Melt the dark chocolate, butter and syrup together gently and stir until glossy.
- Fold the biscuit through, press into a lined tin and chill for two hours.
- Cut into squares straight from the fridge with a warmed knife.
What you'll end up with: Mint carries further in a cold set slab than in a baked one, and dark chocolate around it stops the whole thing turning sugary.
Mint and Raspberry Plate
How to make Mint and Raspberry Plate with McVitie's Club Mint.
- 4 bars McVitie's Club Mint, chilled
- 200g fresh raspberries
- 200g thick plain yoghurt
- Snap each chilled bar into four and lay the pieces out on small plates.
- Spoon the yoghurt alongside and scatter the raspberries over.
- Serve straight away, while the bars are still cold enough to snap.
What you'll end up with: A pudding out of a lunchbox bar. Sharp fruit and sour yoghurt do what a black coffee does, and hold the sweetness in check.
The Lunchbox Week
How to make The Lunchbox Week with McVitie's Club Mint.
- 1 pack McVitie's Club Mint
- A lunchbox or a desk drawer
- An apple or a satsuma a day
- Store the whole pack in the coolest cupboard you have, not on a windowsill and not in a car.
- Take one bar out at a time and leave the rest sealed. That is what the individual wrappers are for.
- Pack a sharp fruit alongside rather than a second sweet thing.
- Check for bloom before packing a bar that has been somewhere warm. It is still safe, but the snap has gone.
What you'll end up with: A working week with two spare, none of it crushed or stale by Friday.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 521 kcal |
| Fat | 26.8g |
| of which saturates | 16.4g |
| Carbohydrate | 62.7g |
| of which sugars | 41.8g |
| Fibre | 2.3g |
| Protein | 5.9g |
| Salt | 0.6g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten), milk and soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: milk chocolate, sugar, cocoa mass cocoa butter, dried whey milk, dried skimmed milk, butter oil, vegetable fat sal and or shea, palm emulsifier, soya lecithin, natural flavouring, wheat flour, calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin, vegetable oil palm, sugar, glucose syrup, raising agent, sodium bicarbonate, disodium, diphosphate, ammonium bicarbonate, salt natural mint flavouring.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Format | 7 bars, 22g each, 154g in the pack | Each bar individually sealed. |
Pack: McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g; seven individually sealed mint biscuit bars inside a heavy chocolate covering, 154g in total. Store cool, dry and out of direct sunlight with the outer pack closed. Read the ingredient list, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
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Sourcing & blend. McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g is made by McVitie's, the British biscuit house that is the most familiar name on any UK biscuit aisle and is best known for the digestive. The Club sits in the company's wrapped-bar half of the business rather than the tin-and-packet half, and it is built for a lunchbox, a glovebox or a drawer at work rather than for a plate. The range runs several flavours at the same weight, of which mint is the one most people remember first.
What's in McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g, and what isn't:
- In: seven individually sealed mint biscuit bars, each a wheat biscuit carried inside a heavy chocolate covering.
- Contains milk: milk chocolate contains milk. This is not a vegan or dairy-free product.
- Contains gluten: it is a wheat biscuit and is not suitable for a coeliac diet.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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