Gluten-Free Vegan: DS Digestives

Vegan digestive biscuits from DS Gluten Free. If you're avoiding wheat, but crave that wholewheat taste of a crumbly digestive biscuit, your choices are limited. These DS digestives use a blend of maize, soya, buckwheat and tapioca flour. No rice flour in sight... so does that avoid the grittyness problem?

If you're one of our US readers, you'll know these better as Graham crackers. These are pretty good biscuits, whatever you call them. With a lovely baked colour, and even the imprint of a traditional digestive, they look the part. They're a bit firmer and crunchier than wheat digestives, but snap nice and easily. The texture is not bad at all - one of the least gritty gluten-free biscuits we've tried. The flavour is also pretty spot on, although they don't melt in the mouth in the same way.

The dunk test is disappointing. A digestive should soak up plenty of tea and go nice and soft, then be quickly eaten before it drops in your lap. These digestives don't change at all when dunked - they stay crunchy no matter how long you leave them in there. 

These biscuits make excellent crackers though. You may have even spotted them in our recent cheese taste test. We got pretty hooked on these spread with a little 'melty' vegusto cheese.

Verdict: Decent Digestives

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Veganoo Score: ★★★★☆
 DS Gluten Free Digestives

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Footnote: Ingredients

Here is the ingredients panel from the pack we reviewed.

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