# McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £2.80 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/mcvities-club-mint-biscuit-bars-multipack-7-bars-154g/` _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/mcvities-club-mint-biscuit-bars-multipack-7-bars-154g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** McVitie's **Price:** £2.80 GBP **GTIN:** 5000168210728 **Stock:** instock ## Summary 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.Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.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.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. ## Description 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. The Taste Profile Chocolate Weight: ●●●●● (5/5) The point of the Club format. A thick covering that arrives first and stays longest. Mint: ●●●●○ (4/5) Clean and cooling, cutting across the chocolate rather than sitting beside it. Biscuit: ●●○○○ (2/5) Present as structure more than as flavour. It holds the bar together and stays quiet. Sweetness: ●●●●○ (4/5) High, as a heavily covered bar has to be, though the mint takes a genuine edge off the finish. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.8 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk 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. How Does McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g Compare to: McVitie's Club Orange Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g: the direct sibling at the same count and weight, with orange in place of mint. Orange lightens a heavy chocolate bar and makes it fruitier; mint cuts across it and makes it cleaner. Buy orange for the warmer version, this one when the covering needs something to stand against. Fox's Biscuits Rocky Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Pack 138g: the rival mint bar at the same count and almost the same weight, so the comparison is unusually direct. Both are fully covered mint biscuit bars from the two big British biscuit houses. The honest answer is that this is a brand loyalty decision rather than a category decision, and buying one pack of each is the only way to settle it. McVitie's Penguin Chocolate and Mint Flavour Cream Filled Biscuit Bars, 7 Bars 172.2g: the same company's other mint bar and a genuinely different build, with a cream filling between biscuit layers. The Penguin is softer and creamier; the Club is heavier and more chocolate-led. Buy the Penguin for a bar that gives under the teeth, this one for one that snaps. 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. Safety And Purity Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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. No health claim: mint here is a flavour decision and nothing more. Child safety: individually wrapped bars are easy for small hands to open. Keep the wrappers out of reach of very younger children. ## Product Questions What makes a Club different from an ordinary chocolate biscuit?The weight of the covering. Most chocolate biscuits are a biscuit first with a coating added on one side; the Club is built the other way round, fully covered, with enough chocolate on it that the biscuit inside reads as structure rather than flavour. That is what the format has always been for and it is why the bar behaves the way it does in a warm room. How many bars are in the pack?Seven bars at twenty-two grams each, so one hundred and fifty-four grams in total. Why does it taste better cold?Because mint is the flavour most sensitive to temperature on the whole shelf. Cooling compounds read clearly in a cool bar and fade badly in a warm one, and at the same time warm chocolate coats the tongue at once instead of releasing through the bite. A Club Mint out of a hot car and the same bar out of a cold cupboard are genuinely different products. Can I dunk it?No. A fully covered bar has no exposed porous crumb, so it cannot take liquid evenly. It softens from the outside in, the covering slides and the biscuit collapses into the cup. Eat it alongside the drink instead. If you want something to dunk, buy a plain dry biscuit. Is the mint in the chocolate or in a filling?The ingredient list on the current UK pack is the only reliable source. How does it compare with the Club Orange?Same count, same weight, different job. Orange lightens a heavy chocolate bar and makes it fruitier and warmer; mint cuts across it and makes it cleaner and sharper. Neither is better. Buy orange if you want the covering softened, this one if you want something standing against it. Which drink goes with it?An unsweetened black coffee first, a strong black tea second. Mint and coffee is an old pairing and the bitterness in the cup carries a heavy covering that has none of its own. Avoid hot chocolate and sweetened lattes, which double the sweetness, and avoid a peppermint tea, which simply competes. Is a seven-bar pack better than a big packet?For a lunchbox household, yes. Seven individually sealed bars is a working week with two spare, nothing goes stale between Monday and Friday and nothing arrives crushed at the bottom of a bag. Why has my bar gone pale?That is bloom: chocolate that has warmed enough to soften and then set again, bringing fat or sugar to the surface. It is harmless and the bar is still fine to eat, but the snap does not come back and the texture reads waxy. Store the pack cool, dry and out of direct sun with the outer wrapper closed. Can I cook with it?Better than most covered bars, because it brings mint, chocolate and crunch in one piece. Chopped over vanilla ice cream, blitzed into a milkshake or folded through a fridge cake all work, and mint carries further in a cold set slab than it does in a baked one. It is not worth putting in the oven. Is there any nutrition information on this page?No, deliberately. ## Ingredients & Nutrition 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.Typical values per 100g, as publishedPer 100gEnergy521 kcalFat26.8gof which saturates16.4gCarbohydrate62.7gof which sugars41.8gFibre2.3gProtein5.9gSalt0.6gIngredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.ComponentProportionWhat it bringsFormat7 bars, 22g each, 154g in the packEach 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.Characterising components shown.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. ## Flavour Science The flavour of McVitie's Club Mint Biscuit Bars Multipack, 7 Bars 154g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the bar tastes the way it does from the first snap to the last swallow.The outer layer is the covering, and on a Club that is not a figure of speech. The bar is enclosed rather than coated, so the chocolate is the first thing the tongue meets on every side at once and it sets the terms for everything that follows. A heavy covering also carries the mint outward: cooling aromatics are volatile and fat-soluble, so they travel in the chocolate and reach the nose before the bite happens. That is why the smell of an opened Club Mint is noticeably minty while the biscuit inside is not, and why the bar reads stronger in a cold room than in a warm one.The flavour spike is the collision in the middle of the bite, where the mint cuts across the chocolate instead of sitting beside it. This is the real difference between a mint bar and an orange or caramel one. Orange lightens a heavy covering and caramel doubles it; mint works against it, and the cooling sensation arrives just as the chocolate is at its richest. The effect is a bar that finishes cleaner than it starts, which is unusual for a fully covered product and is the whole reason this version exists. The biscuit is doing almost none of this work. It is structure, it is the snap, and it stays quiet.The base structure is the finish, and it is shorter than the weight of chocolate would suggest. Milk chocolate on its own leaves a sweet coating tail; the cooling compounds cut that tail off early and leave the mouth feeling rinsed rather than coated. A well-kept bar should snap cleanly on the seventh as on the first. A bar that bends instead of snapping has been warm, and a warm Club Mint is a measurably worse product: the chocolate coats the tongue at once instead of releasing through the bite, and the mint that should cut it has already faded.Getting it right in the cup. The honest answer is that this one does not go in the cup. A fully covered bar has no exposed porous crumb to wick liquid evenly, so it softens from the outside in, the covering slides and the biscuit collapses. Serve it alongside instead and be deliberate about what is in the cup, because a heavily covered bar carries no bitterness of its own. An unsweetened filter coffee or an espresso is the best partner, and mint with coffee is an old pairing for good reason. A strong black tea with no sugar does the same job more gently. The pairings to avoid outright are hot chocolate and sweetened lattes, which simply double the sweetness, and peppermint tea, which competes with the bar rather than supporting it.How water and temperature change it. Temperature is the variable that matters here and it matters more for mint than for any other flavour on the shelf. Cool, the covering is firm, the snap is clean, the chocolate releases progressively through the bite and the cooling compounds read at full strength. Warm, the break becomes a bend, the chocolate coats the tongue immediately and the mint flattens, so the same bar tastes sweeter and duller. Twenty minutes in the fridge before eating is a real improvement rather than a refinement. Chocolate that has warmed and re-set shows a pale bloom on the surface, harmless but permanent, and the snap does not return. Humidity matters less here than for an open biscuit, because each bar is sealed, which is exactly what the multipack format buys you. None of this is a fault in the bar, it is a chocolate-heavy product behaving like one, and a cool dark cupboard fixes all of it. ## Recipe Ideas 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. Recipes, born here first The Cold Bar Coffee Break How to make The Cold Bar Coffee Break with McVitie's Club Mint. 3 min + 20 min chill 1 break Easy You'll need 1 bar McVitie's Club Mint 1 filter coffee or espresso, unsweetened A glass of cold water Method 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. 5 min 2 glasses Easy You'll need 2 bars McVitie's Club Mint 300ml cold whole milk 4 scoops vanilla ice cream A handful of ice Method 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. 5 min 4 bowls Easy You'll need 2 bars McVitie's Club Mint, chilled 8 scoops vanilla ice cream A handful of fresh raspberries Method 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. 20 min + 2 hours chill 12 squares Easy You'll need 4 bars McVitie's Club Mint 200g dark chocolate 80g butter 2 tablespoons golden syrup Method 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. 6 min 4 plates Easy You'll need 4 bars McVitie's Club Mint, chilled 200g fresh raspberries 200g thick plain yoghurt Method 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. 5 min a week 7 bars Easy You'll need 1 pack McVitie's Club Mint A lunchbox or a desk drawer An apple or a satsuma a day Method 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. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._