Written By: Naz Haider | Published : August 9, 2016 4:52 PM IST
A number of people I know, who are watching their weight or trying to eat healthy, refuse to touch a regular biscuit or cookie. It is a processed food after all, full of sugar and unnatural preservatives. They prefer munching on a digestive biscuit as a snack with their evening chai. When you choose a digestive biscuit for its fibre or whole flour content, you need to keep in mind that even a digestive biscuit is a processed food, and is not all that healthy.
Sneha Sadhwani, nutritionist says, 'As a nutritionist, I will never recommend eating a biscuit - regular or digestive. While a regular biscuit is definitely bad because of the processed flour, even a digestive biscuit contains its share of unhealthy ingredients.' Each digestive biscuit that you eat has 67 calories* , and contains unhealthy ingredients like -
Sneha suggests snacking on fruits, dry fruits or other natural foods instead of eating a digestive biscuit which may not give you the promised energy or fibre and may be full of empty calories, sugar and unhealthy fat.
* Calculated using healthifyme calorie counter
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