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Press release announcing that "new data from Sainsbury's today reveals that Britain's biscuit lovers have munched their way through a massive 141 million packets of biscuits over the last year, amounting to 11.7m packets bought each month, 2.7 million per week, 542,000 per day, 22,596 per hour and 376 packets per minute. The figures reveal that the nation's favourite dunking companion is the humble digestive - selling almost 17 million packets per year."