McVitie's launches limited edition Strawberry-flavoured Jaffa Cakes". Talkingretail.com. 27 April 2009 . Retrieved 22 June 2010. Abernethy, Laura (27 January 2020). "McVitie's launches new pineapple flavour Jaffa Cakes". Metro . Retrieved 7 March 2020. Years ago, a friend who lived in England talked about eating Jaffa cakes. I didn’t know what they were at the time, but soon after that I spotted Jaffa cakes as a limited-time special at one of my local Aldi stores, so I got some to try. The opportunity to taste new and unique foods is one of my favorite things about shopping at Aldi.

United Biscuits (UK) Ltd (No. 2). [1991] BVC 818 | Croner-i Tax and Accounting". library.croneri.co.uk . Retrieved 17 February 2021. Jaffa Cakes reignites an ancient dispute in return to TV". www.campaignlive.co.uk . Retrieved 24 March 2021. Jaffa Cakes - definitely not biscuits - prepare to take on imitators". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 17 June 2018 . Retrieved 28 December 2014. Chabo, Elena (5 January 2021). "McVitie's has launched new Jaffa Cake flavours Passionfruit and Cherry". Good Housekeeping . Retrieved 27 January 2021. We understand there are online independent retailers who are misleading consumers by selling McVitie’s products with incorrect information.To make sure the information in this article is accurate, I researched and cross-referenced various sources (as well as original research) to obtain the correct weights and calories. You Might Also Like In 2021, artificially intelligent binary classifiers "usually used in the field of astronomy" were trained on 92 traditional recipes of cakes and biscuits and determined Jaffa Cakes to be cakes. [25] Advertising Jaffa cakes are lower in calories than most biscuits, for example, one single plain digestive biscuit is 71kcal. a b "What you do – and don't – pay VAT on". Which? Magazine. 24 June 2010. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012 . Retrieved 27 September 2012.

Categorisation of Jaffa Cakes as a chocolate-covered cake rather than a chocolate-covered biscuit was the subject of a famous tribunal in 1991 after McVitie’s argued it was a cake and VAT therefore did not have to be paid on it. Briggs, Fiona. "Pladis unveils new TV creative for McVitie's Jaffa Cakes brand". Retail Times . Retrieved 24 March 2021. I used precision scales that weigh to 0.01 of a gram which is regularly calibrated with a 100g weight. For more information see my recommended weighing scales here. The orange jelly-filled cult favourite hit the UK markets in the 1920’s and is named after Jaffa oranges. In the United Kingdom, value added tax is payable on chocolate-covered biscuits, but not on chocolate-covered cakes. [16] [17] McVities defended its classification of Jaffa Cakes as cakes at a VAT tribunal in 1991, against the ruling that Jaffa cakes were biscuits due to their size and shape, and the fact that they were often eaten in place of biscuits. [18] McVities insisted that the product was a cake, and produced a giant Jaffa Cake in court to illustrate its point. [18]Pladis to push McVitie's Jaffa Cakes with 'Be What You Want To Be' ad campaign". BetterRetailing. 26 February 2021 . Retrieved 24 March 2021. Davies, E. R.; Patel, D.; Johnstone, A. I. C. (1995). "Crucial issues in the design of a real-time contaminant detection system for food products". Real-Time Imaging. 1 (6): 397–407.

The Jaffa Cake has a base of Genoise sponge, although it is often found in the biscuit aisle and its size is more akin to that of a biscuit than a cake. The court was adjudicated by Mr Donald Potter QC, who found in favour of McVitie's and ruled that whilst Jaffa Cakes had characteristics of both cakes and biscuits, the product should be considered a cake and not a biscuit, meaning that VAT is not paid on Jaffa Cakes in the United Kingdom. [16] [22] [23]

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VAT Tribunal case LON/91/0160 (United Biscuits)". Archived from the original on 10 February 2019 . Retrieved 9 February 2019. One thing is sure: if you like British food and culture, these are well worth trying, especially as their name-brand McVitie’s counterpart was rated as the best selling cake or biscuit (cookie) in Britain a few years ago. The Verdict: Graves, Mark; Batchelor, Bruce (2003). Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products. Springer Science & Business Media. p.403. ISBN 978-1-85233-525-0. The Irish Revenue Commissioners also regard Jaffa Cakes as cakes, since their moisture content is greater than 12%. As a result, they are charged the reduced rate of VAT (13.5% as of 2016 [update]). [24] a b Harry Wallop (6 May 2012). "Jaffa Cakes - definitely not biscuits - prepare to take on imitators". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012 . Retrieved 3 January 2013.