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Chocolate digestive named best biscuit to dunk |
 The humble chocolate digestive has been named as the nation’s favourite dunking biscuit in a poll.
According to a survey of 3,000 people by the internet market research website the biscuit is the best to dunk into a cup of tea, beating Rich Tea, which came in second. It was first developed in 1839 by two Scottish doctors to aid digestion, chocolate was eventually added in 1925.
Two of McVitie's other top-sellers HobNobs and digestives came third and fourth with chocolate bourbons in fifth place. Chocolate HobNobs, chocolate chip cookies, custard creams, shortbreads and ginger nuts completed the top ten.
The study also found three out of four people dunked in the last seven days. And the workplace is still the number one location for dunking with 89% of employees admitting they regularly dunk during office hours.
In a separate study, physicist Dr Len Fisher, a honorary research fellow at , used a hi-tech Instron stress-tester to calculate the breaking-point of each biscuit. Again, chocolate digestives won because their coating protected them from the effects of the hot tea.
The biscuits can withstand at least eight seconds in a tea or coffee - and emerge almost as strong post-dunk as it was dry - compared to a mere three to four seconds for ginger nuts and hobnobs.
‘The best strategy for dunking is a flat-on approach, biscuit-side down to minimise chocolate bleed into your tea or coffee and to maintain the chocolate layer as a crack-stopper,’ said Dr Fisher |
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Broccoli sunscreen may protect against cancer |
 A new cancer drug based on chemicals found in broccoli, cabbage and other leafy greens has been developed by scientists.
The drug, which could be used to slow the growth of malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, may be available as a sunscreen in about 10 years, according to a report in Malignant melanoma affects more than 8,000 people in Britain a year.
Eating plenty of broccoli, cabbage, and other members of the green, leafy brassica family, has long been hailed as a weapon against cancer.
Brassicas contain natural anticancer compounds called isothiocyanates. The new drug is based on these.
Tests on mice reported in the journal showed that low doses of the new drug inhibited tumour growth by 60%. |
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