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Frequently Asked Questions

Do biscuits contain too much fat or sugar?

The diversity of ingredients and recipes makes for a wide variety of biscuits.

After flour, sugar is one of the traditional ingredients of every recipe, whether for home-cooked biscuits or shop-bought ones. A child needs both simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates to satisfy its energy requirements.

Some biscuits are low in fat: less than 1 g of lipids per biscuit consumed: gingerbread, boudoir biscuits, petit-beurre biscuits and jam-filled biscuits generally.

Source: IFN

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Source: European Food Information Council

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