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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

A cushion of whipped vanilla cream lies under a landslide of shattered digestives with a few berries in mourning.

From The Guardian Oct. 19, 2014

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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