{"product_id":"glico-bisco-strawberry","title":"Glico Bisco Strawberry Cream Biscuits — 15 Biscuits","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe pink box in Glico's Bisco range: a strawberry cream between two crisp biscuits made with some wholemeal flour. It tastes tart rather than sugary, closer to strawberry yoghurt than to a strawberry lolly. If you have met Japanese strawberry sweets before and found them sweet and one-note, this is the argument against that. Everyday supermarket confectionery in Japan, not a gift-tin product. Buy it if you like strawberry things that lean tart; if what you want is a sweet, creamy strawberry biscuit, this is the wrong one: the sourness comes first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eビスコ＜いちご＞, \u003cem\u003ebisuko ichigo\u003c\/em\u003e. The pink 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\u003eTart, not sugary.\u003c\/strong\u003e The cream has real acidity and feels grainy on the tongue rather than smooth, as though the fruit were in there. \u003cstrong\u003eThe list carries both strawberry powder and a separate flavouring\u003c\/strong\u003e, so it is not purely one or the other; what people notice is the tartness. Some find the smell laid on too thick: an argument about aroma, not taste.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIt is not sweeter than the plain box.\u003c\/strong\u003e Worth saying because it is the natural assumption about a strawberry cream. It reads gentle and not-too-sweet rather than sugary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThere is wholemeal in this biscuit, and none in the red box.\u003c\/strong\u003e Glico builds this one on a milk biscuit made with some wholemeal flour and the original on a plain one, so the two differ below the cream as well as in it. It is not a wholemeal biscuit, the flour is mostly ordinary wheat, but it is a real difference between the two boxes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNothing in the ingredient list colours it.\u003c\/strong\u003e The pink is faint, and it comes from strawberry powder rather than a colouring, worth knowing if that is something you check.\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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe honest one: the sachets are stiff.\u003c\/strong\u003e They take a moment to tear, and a small child may not manage one on their own.\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. And if you are buying it for a child, Glico's own guidance is from about one year old, with an adult watching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glico","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48293743591650,"sku":"SH-SNK-0038","price":4.39,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/1312\/5858\/files\/glico-bisco-strawberry-box.webp?v=1788164267","url":"https:\/\/shintop.com.au\/products\/glico-bisco-strawberry","provider":"Shintop Trading Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}