Biscuit, sweet, shortbread style

Shortbread-style biscuits, commercially prepared, made using butter. Other ingredients may include wheat flour, sugar and rice flour.

Sugars and some vitamins and minerals were derived from a composite sample of 6 types of biscuits (3x Arnotts Scotch finger, Arnott Shortbread Glengary, 1x Blue Label Butter Shortbread, 1x Sunshine Shortbread Gems, 2x Westons Scotch Finger rich shortbread, 1x Cookie Man Shortbread) purchased in Adelaide (1988 - AGAL - Sweet Biscuit Program). Sugars and some minerals were derived from a composite sample of 8 types of biscuits (Arnotts Butter Shortbread, Scotch Finger, Cookie Man Shortbread, Nabisco Boston Shortbread, Royal Dutch Shortbread, Players Caramel and Butter Shortbread Cookies, Westons Scotch Finger Biscuits, Shortbread Drops) purchased in Sydney (1989 - UNSW - Sweet and Savoury Biscuits). Fatty acids were determined in 3 samples of shortbread biscuits (Glengarry Butter shortbread, Walkers butter shortbread and Paradise Rich shortbread) purchased in Sydney in 2005. Fat was determined in these 3 samples and in two additional ones (Arno and Butterfinger) and are averaged with earlier values. I, Se, Cr, Ni & Mo were determined in 6 samples of various types of plain sweet biscuits purchased in NSW, Qld and Vic in November 2004 (22nd ATDS).