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Basics. Digestive biscuit. A digestive biscuit, sometimes described as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit (known in the USA as a "cookie"[1]) that originated in the United Kingdom and is popular worldwide.
The term "digestive" is derived from the belief that they had antacid properties due to the use of sodium bicarbonate when they were first developed.[2] Historically, some producers used diastatic malt extract to "digest" some of the starch that existed in flour prior to baking.[3][4] History[edit] In 1889, John Montgomerie of Scotland filed a U.S. patent application, which was granted in 1890. This patent asserted a prior patent existed in England dated 1886.