Description and examples of biscuit categories
| Category | Description and examples |
| Bourbon | Products described as ‘Bourbon’ or similar. |
| Custard cream | Products described as ‘custard cream’ or similar. |
| Jam filled | Biscuits filled with jam only, for example, Jammie Dodgers and Aldi Belmont Biscuits Jammy Wheels. |
| Jam and cream | Biscuits with jam and cream filling, for example, Viennese Whirl. |
| Fruit filled | Biscuits with fruit filling, including yoghurt coated, for example, Go Ahead! Crispy Slices Orange and Garibaldi Biscuits. |
| Breakfast unfilled | Products described as breakfast biscuits and contain no filling. |
| Breakfast filled | Products described as breakfast biscuits with filling, for example, Belvita Breakfast Yoghurt. |
| Chocolate chip | Products described as cookies or biscuit containing dark, milk or white chocolate chips or chunks. |
| Chocolate-coated ginger | Products described as ginger biscuits and chocolate coated. |
| Chocolate digestives | Products described as ’digestives' and chocolate coated. |
| Digestives | Products described as ‘digestives’ and plain. |
| Ginger stem | Products described as cookies or biscuits with ginger stem or similar. |
| Ginger | Products described as ginger-flavoured biscuit and plain, for example, Ginger Nuts. |
| Iced | Biscuits topped with icing and plain, for example, Fox’s Party Rings and McVitie’s Iced Gems |
| Malted milk | Products described as malted milk or similar and plain. |
| Nice | Products described as ‘Nice’ or similar and plain. |
| Oatmeal | Biscuits made of oatmeal or oats and plain, for example, McVitie’s Hobnobs. |
| Rich Tea | Products described as ‘Rich Tea’ or similar and plain. |
| Shortbread | Products described as shortbread or similar and plain. |
| Shortbread with additions or coated | Products described as shortbread with additions, for example, Marks & Spencer Scottish All Butter Choc Chunk Shortbread Rounds and Asda Extra Special Stem Ginger Shortbread Thins. |
| Flavoured shortbread | Biscuits described as shortbread with flavouring, for example, Asda Extra Special Lemon Shortbread Thins and Waitrose Seriously Delicate All butter Rose Shortbread. |
| Shortcake | Products described as shortcake or similar and plain. |
| Wafer | Products described as wafer or similar, for example, Thorntons Double Chocolate Wafer Rolls. |