I have enjoyed these biscuits for years . I opened the packet instantly look different took a bite YUK !! Thin bland just awful ???? why change a brilliant recipe? It's not working please change back.

I purchased a packet of Mc Vities Digestives last week. Noticed the different 'loose' packaging but thought nothing of it. Opened the biscuits a couple of days later.., every single one was soft although I could see no sign of damage to the packet itself. I did check. Yesterday I went to a big superstore, bought a double pack of McVities Digestives. I hoped the 2nd layer of packaging would protect the biscuits. I placed them straight in my shopping trolley, they suffered no knocks. When I was back home, I found the outer packaging was whole. I could feel a slighty crumblyness to the top of one of the packets. I took the packet out, it was split at the seam in the middle. There were a lot more broken biscuits than I expected. I decided to put the biscuits in an airtight storage container to keep them crisp. As I did this, I found over half of the biscuits were broken, many of them were just crumbs. The loose packaging hadn't shown this when I just felt the package. The biscuits that were in bits big enough to eat were crisp though (at the time of opening). But I won't be buying them again. The durability of the new looser packaging both for single and double packets of McVities digestives has not been researched well. I never ever had lots of broken biscuits in the old smooth close fitting packaging, if any of them were broken or crumbled, you could easily tell. This needs to change. £2 completely wasted.

I thought they had mixed up their recipe with a cheap brand as that is how they taste now. I don't notice the sugar drop but the texture is all wrong. they are hard and grainy. Gone is the smooth biscuit that I could use not just with a cuppa but with savoury cheese snacks In fact these are no better that the cheap supermarket ones so I would be better saving my money and buying those if I want a digestive!!!!

This high fiber digestive biscuit is the best choice for a breakfast with chai. It tastes delicious.

Hate the change in recipe, has a strange “tang” when you eat them. Will finish eating( reluctantly) current stock then stop buying McVities. Shame as I have bought them for years

I've been buying McVities Digestives for years but I'm afraid my latest packet went straight in the recycling. Dusty and soft and tasteless. I'll be changing brand.

I don't know what has happened, but this biscuit is not nearly as good as it was. Won't buy again.

These biscuits are a huge dissapointment.They leave an aftertaste, taste bitter but bland.They do not taste like an original mcvities digestive at all, more like a cheap, cheap copy.McVities need to respond to all these poor reviews and comments.

I live in Mexico and managed to get my hands on a packet of these recently. I could not wait to get stuck in to my all-time favourite biscuit after so many years! What a huge disappointment! I read that many companies in the UK have been changing recipes over the last few years (less salt here, less fat there, whatever) but I had no idea how bad things had gotten. Biscuits are a treat to be enjoyed and savoured, not a health food. They now taste like cardboard with a very saw-dusty texture in the mouth ... just all wrong. If anyone has access to a brand called Gullon from Spain give them a try. Their digestives are, in my opinion, far superior to the Mcvities. Now off to make a cheesecake with them or something ...

These digestives have always been tops with our family.My husband will eat virtually any biscuit and loves his digestives.He recently commented that they were very saw dusty.We thought it was maybe a duff batch and bought more.To our disappointment they too were dry,not very sweet,much thinner and quite burnt looking.Is this just another case of cutting back and making the customer pay for poor quality products?may as well buy a much cheaper brand for a better quality biscuit.Shame on you McVities.

Just got a new packet of these digestives. They are totally ruined,not a bit like they used to be. I am very dissapointed,they should leave things alone.they were perfect before, why!!!!!! Change them. I will try a different brand next time.

Since they changed the recipe McVities have struggled with quality. To me it seems they have to under bake them so they do not get the biscuits too brittle. They have lost their toasted flavour, taste of undercooked flour and look horrible and pale. A great British biscuit ruined by food technologists!!!

I recently tried a box of McVities Digestives for the first time. I've been buying Burton's Digestives for some time now and the Mcvities didn't come close to being as good. They were bland and had considerably less flavor, and the texture wasn't as nice. Just to be certain I then did a side-by side comparison by dunking both varieties in the same cup of tea, and there was no question that the Burton's were much better.

I liked these biscuits because they were sweet and crumbly and tasty. Now they have no flavour and aren't worth eating. my daily treat is NO more. They taste CHEAP.

Have always enjoyed McVities D B's (plain!) in the mornings and then a change happened. They were often broken or crumbled in the packet. They still tasted right so assumed that this happened as result of bad transport (from UK to Canada) and continued to purchase and salvage pieces. THen they were packaged in a box but that didn't stop the breakage. A few months ago I couldn't find them at all except in hard-to-get-to English specialty stores and lately reappeared, smaller and though not broken, less biscuity without the buttery wheaty taste. Now more crackery and not a satisfying change in taste and texture. NOT HAPPY!!!! McVities, I'm hoping you're doing a rethink and really going back to "original recipe". It says that on the package but it ain't.