Biscuits, again

Mr. Tidbit has struggled several times — most recently last week in discussing the debut of Kellogg’s Nutri-Grain Breakfast Biscuits — with this burning question: What exactly is a “breakfast biscuit”? With now three examples under his belt, so to speak — including those from the Nature Valley and BelVita brands — he concluded (the following reminder is for those who weren’t paying attention last week) that a breakfast biscuit is a thin, cookie-like item not sweet enough to be a cookie.

Immediately after writing that, he encountered Quaker’s new Oat & Yogurt Sandwich Biscuits, little tablets of an oat/wheat/crisp-rice mixture, pairs of which are held together with a layer of a vanilla-flavored yogurtlike substance. Absent the word “breakfast,” he wondered, were these perhaps lunch or dinner biscuits? No. A close examination of the box revealed, in small type, this suggestion: “Enjoy with breakfast.”

He also noticed that — whereas the BelVita breakfast biscuits contain 18 or 19 grams of whole grains per four-biscuit serving (depending on flavor), the larger Nutri-Grain items contain 21 or 22 grams of whole grains per two biscuits and the four-biscuit serving of the Nature Valley version contains 26 grams of whole grains — the two-sandwich serving of Quaker Sandwich Biscuits contains just 10 grams of whole grains. (Partial explanation: There isn’t any whole grain in the yogurt filling.)

But do the Quaker Oat & Yogurt Sandwich Biscuits meet Mr. Tidbit’s “not sweet enough to be a cookie” definition of breakfast biscuits? Noting that the issue is the dining experience, not the reported sugar content, Mr. Tidbit opines that the Quaker Oat & Yogurt Sandwich Biscuit is definitely not a cookie.

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State Sen. Marty Harbin (R-Tyrone) speaks during a state Senate Ethics Committee hearing on election security at the Paul D. Coverdell Legislative Office Building in Atlanta on Wednesday, November 1, 2023. Harbin is the main sponsor of SB 120, which would withhold state funding or state-administered federal money to any public school or college that implements DEI policies. (Arvin Temkar / arvin.temkar@ajc.com)

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