{"product_id":"glico-bisco-fermented-butter","title":"Glico Bisco Fermented Butter Biscuits — 15 Biscuits","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe yellow box, and the one where Glico changes the biscuit rather than the cream: a salted butter biscuit around a vanilla cream flecked with vanilla seed. What you notice is the salt against the sweetness. Everyday supermarket confectionery in Japan, not a gift-tin product. Buy it if a salted biscuit against a sweet cream sounds like your kind of thing; if you want a straightforwardly sweet cream biscuit, take the red box instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFermented butter: \u003cem\u003ehakkō batā\u003c\/em\u003e, is butter churned from cream that has been cultured first, the way most European butter is made and most Australian butter is not. It carries a faint tang and a deeper, nuttier smell than sweet-cream butter, which is why a Japanese biscuit maker reaches for it when it wants a biscuit to taste of something.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eビスコ＜発酵バター＞: \u003cem\u003ebisuko hakkō batā\u003c\/em\u003e. The yellow box, with the same boy on the front that Glico has been redrawing since 1933.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you're getting\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSweet-and-salty, and the salt is the reason to buy it.\u003c\/strong\u003e There is noticeably more salt in this biscuit than in the plain Bisco, and it plays against a sweet vanilla cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe biscuit changes, not just the cream.\u003c\/strong\u003e The red and pink boxes use a milk biscuit; this one is a butter biscuit, closer to a shortbread or a cracker in the hand, and firmer to bite.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVanilla bean, not just vanilla flavour.\u003c\/strong\u003e Vanilla bean seed is in the ingredient list — look for the flecks in the cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest one, and it matters here more than usual: you may not taste much butter.\u003c\/strong\u003e The butter reads faint, and it has read that way for a decade, not just since the recipe changed. Take \"fermented butter\" as the kind of biscuit it is, not as a promise about aroma.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIf you knew this box before April 2025, expect a difference.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico reformulated the whole Bisco range then, and the change is argued over in Japan: worth knowing before you buy, particularly if you are re-buying something you remember.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFifteen small biscuits in three sealed packs of five.\u003c\/strong\u003e They are small, and the three sachets are why the last five are as crisp as the first. The sachets are stiff to tear, and a small child may not manage one alone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAllergens\u003c\/strong\u003e: contains \u003cstrong\u003emilk\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ewheat\u003c\/strong\u003e. Read the pack's own label before you rely on ours.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf you have seen Bisco sold as a long-life emergency ration in a sealed tin, that is a different product from this one: a different pack, made to sit in a cupboard for years. This is the ordinary box. The front of the pack makes a good deal of the cultures in the cream; treat that as part of what Bisco is rather than as a reason to buy it, because we are not making any claim about what it does. This is not a premium line in Japan and is not priced as one: \"grown-up Bisco\" is about the salt, not the shelf. And if you are buying it for a child, Glico's own guidance is from about one year old, with an adult watching. A whole biscuit is a big mouthful at three, so break it up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48293743952098,"sku":"SH-SNK-0039","price":4.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-bisco-fermented-butter-box.webp?v=1788164491","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/glico-bisco-fermented-butter","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}