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digestives

  • plural
    of digestive.
    digestive
    adjective
    serving for or pertaining to digestion; having the function of digesting food.

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The boss of the biscuits factory where McVitie's chocolate digestives have been made for the last 100 years reckons people have always eaten them incorrectly.

From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2025

The British brand McVitie’s even has a dunking expert, Stuart Farrimond, and he claims that dunking digestives in a milky drink releases more flavor than you’d get from a dry one.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022

Historically, digestives were made with wholemeal, a combination of fine bran and white flour.

From Washington Post ● May 10, 2022

As his wife Loren brings us tea and digestives, Jansch recalls the events of what has been a rollercoaster two years.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2010

Hence one does not break one's fast by taking them or any other medicines, unless one were to take digestives, with a fraudulent intention, in great quantity and by way of food.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas

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