Schar Gluten Free Digestive Biscuits, 150g
A free-from biscuit is never what a corner shop has on the shelf at four o'clock when somebody is coming, so this is a box to get in before the week it is wanted. What arrives is the familiar digestive shape and the half-sweet toasted reading that goes with it, put together without the flour that normally does that work. Gluten free is one claim about one protein: a household also avoiding milk, soya or nuts needs the declaration on the current box, not a memory of an older one.
Schar Gluten Free Digestive Biscuits, in brief.
Schär Gluten Free Digestive Biscuits is a 150g pack of round, half-sweet, toasted-tasting digestives made without gluten, from a free-from specialist rather than a general biscuit maker. Picked into the Teas.co.uk selection so a household where somebody avoids wheat can still put a normal tea tray together.
The crumb is short and sandy rather than snapping, so dunk for two seconds and keep hold of it.
A digestive is a difficult biscuit to rebuild without wheat, because gluten is what holds a conventional biscuit dough together while it bakes and gives the finished biscuit its particular short, sandy break. Take it out and the recipe has to find that structure somewhere else. The whole question with a gluten free digestive is whether the result still reads as a digestive when it is sitting on a saucer next to a cup of tea, or whether it reads as a substitute. This one is bought for households where somebody cannot eat wheat and everybody would still like the same tea tray, and that is a real job that a 150g pack does well.
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 pairing guidance are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind The Pack
Schär is a free-from specialist rather than a general biscuit maker that happens to do a gluten free line, and that difference shows in what it chooses to make. The digestive is one of the hardest British biscuits to reproduce without wheat, and it is also one of the ones people miss most, which is exactly why a specialist takes it on.
The 150g pack size is part of the same picture. Free-from biscuits are bought in smaller quantities and eaten over a longer period, and a smaller pack that gets finished in condition is worth more than a big one that goes soft in a cupboard.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- Buy a pack you will finish. 150g eaten in condition beats a large pack that softens and is thrown out, and a gluten free biscuit is on a shorter clock than a wheat one once it is opened.
- Recycling follows the pack. Cartons, trays and films can take different routes and councils differ, so read the current pack and your own local guidance.
Serving Notes For Schar Gluten Free Digestive Biscuits, 150g
- Portion: two biscuits with a mug of tea.
- Storage: airtight as soon as the pack is opened. Gluten free biscuits pick up moisture readily and lose their bite quickly.
- Best with: black tea with milk, plain coffee, hard cheese, or a thin scrape of butter.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Schar Gluten Free Digestive Biscuits, 150g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Schar
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
A gluten free digestive behaves a little differently in hot liquid from a wheat one, so the brewing notes matter more than usual.
The Everyday Mug
The Spread Route
Made with this tea
The Everyday Mug
How to serve Schar Gluten Free Digestives with a proper mug of tea.
- 2 biscuits
- 1 bag ordinary black tea
- 200ml water at a full boil
- A splash of milk
- Brew one bag in 200ml straight off the boil for three to four minutes. Medium rather than light, because a half-sweet biscuit wants some body in the cup.
- Add milk and leave the sugar out; the biscuit has enough.
- Dunk for two seconds at most, keeping hold of the biscuit, and eat the wet part first.
What you'll end up with: The tea tray a wheat-free household actually wanted, rather than a compromise version of it.
The Careful Dunk
How to dunk a gluten free digestive without losing it.
- 2 biscuits
- 1 mug of hot tea
- Dunk no more than half the biscuit and count two seconds rather than five.
- Hold on to it the whole time. Without a gluten network there is less holding the crumb together once hot tea is inside it.
- Eat the wet half immediately and the dry half after, which is the only reliable order.
What you'll end up with: A dunked digestive that reaches your mouth rather than the bottom of the mug.
Gluten Free Cheesecake Base
How to build a gluten free cheesecake base from Schar digestives.
- 150g biscuits
- 🯈70g butter, melted
- 🯂A pinch of salt
- Crush the biscuits to a fine crumb. A digestive crumb is what most base recipes are written around, which is why this is the best free-from biscuit for the job.
- Stir into the melted butter with the salt until it holds together when pressed.
- Press firmly into a lined tin and chill for thirty minutes before filling.
- Check that the filling and any topping are gluten free as well. That is the step people forget after doing the base properly.
What you'll end up with: A base that behaves like the wheat original, from the one free-from biscuit shaped for the job.
Home-Dipped Chocolate Digestives
How to make chocolate digestives from the plain gluten free biscuit.
- 8 biscuits
- 150g dark or milk chocolate
- A palette knife or spoon
- Melt the chocolate gently over hot water rather than in a microwave, so it stays glossy as it sets.
- Dip one flat face of each biscuit and scrape the excess off on the rim of the bowl.
- Set chocolate side up on baking paper, at room temperature rather than in the fridge, which dulls the finish.
- Check that the chocolate you use is suitable for the household you are baking for.
What you'll end up with: Chocolate digestives for a gluten free house, which are otherwise hard to find and dear when you do.
The Cheese Plate
How to serve Schar Gluten Free Digestives with cheese.
- 4 biscuits
- A hard cheese, thinly sliced
- Apple or pear
- Chutney, optional
- Bring the cheese and the biscuits to room temperature. Cold biscuit and cold cheese both read flat.
- Press the cheese on with the flat of the knife instead of dragging it. A short sandy crumb cracks under a dragged blade.
- Choose hard over soft. A heavy soft cheese is more weight than this crumb will carry.
- Add thin slices of apple or pear, which suit the half-sweet biscuit better than chutney does.
What you'll end up with: The one thing a digestive does that no other tea biscuit manages, available to a wheat-free table.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 488 kcal |
| Fat | 24g |
| of which saturates | 10g |
| Carbohydrate | 57g |
| of which sugars | 18g |
| Fibre | 8,5g |
| Protein | 6,7g |
| Salt | 0,53g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this product it contains soya. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this product: Maize Starch, Palm Oil, Maize Flour, Cane Sugar, Soya Flour, Soya Bran 7%, Buckwheat Flour 4%, Sugar Syrup, Modified Tapioca Starch, Salt, Raising Agents: Ammonium Hydrogen Carbonate, Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Gluten free digestive base | the whole biscuit | The half-sweet, toasted reading that defines a digestive, rebuilt without the gluten that normally holds a biscuit dough together through the bake. |
| Short sandy crumb | the defining texture | Gluten free doughs tend to break short and sandy rather than snapping cleanly, which suits a digestive better than it would suit a thin plain biscuit. It is also why the dunk limit is lower. |
| Round format | the standard shape | Sturdy enough dry to take butter, hard cheese or a home-dipped chocolate coating, and the right shape and crumb for a cheesecake base. |
| Pack weight | 150g | A smaller pack than a wheat digestive, which suits a biscuit that loses its bite quickly once opened. |
| Gluten free status | named on the pack | The brand's own published position, stated in the product name. The labelling that matters for a coeliac household is printed on the current UK pack. |
Pack: Schar Gluten Free Digestive Biscuits, 150g; a single pack of round gluten free digestives. Best before the date printed on the pack, and best moved to an airtight tin the moment it is opened.
Sourcing & blend. Schar Gluten Free Digestive Biscuits, 150g comes from Schär, a free-from specialist rather than a general biscuit maker with a gluten free line on the side. That distinction matters on a digestive, which is one of the hardest British biscuits to rebuild without wheat and one of the ones people miss most when they stop eating it. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe for another market. The reading of the crumb as short and sandy rather than snapping, and of the toasted half-sweet character as recognisably that of a digestive, is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.
What is in Schar Gluten Free Digestive Biscuits, 150g, and what is not:
- In: a 150g pack of round gluten free digestive biscuits.
- Not free from everything else: gluten free is a single claim. Other allergens are covered by the declaration on the current pack and nowhere else.
- Not a wheat digestive: the crumb is shorter and the dunk tolerance lower, which is an editorial reading of how a gluten free dough behaves rather than a claim off the pack.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Schar Gluten Free Digestive Biscuits, 150g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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