Balisto is a wholemeal biscuit bar snack manufactured by Mars Incorporated, consisting of a digestive biscuit

Digestive biscuit

A digestive biscuit, sometimes referred to as a sweet-meal biscuit, is a semi-sweet biscuit originated in the United Kingdom and popular worldwide. The term 'digestive' is derived from the belief that they had antacid properties due to the use of sodium bicarbonate when they were first developed...

 centre and a variety of milky cream toppings, and coated in milk chocolate.

Normally, there are two fingers in a package, though the multipack contains nine fingers wrapped individually. They are available in Ireland

Ireland

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, Austria

Austria

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, Germany

Germany

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, The Netherlands, France

France

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, Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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, Belgium

Belgium

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, Portugal

Portugal

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, Slovenia

Slovenia

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 and Italy

Italy

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. In Spring 2011, the bars were introduced to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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When the Balisto bar was released, it was made by Mars Incorporated in West Germany

West Germany

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. Its name supposedly alludes to its dietary fibre content ("Ballaststoffe" in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

).

Varieties

Balisto is available in several different flavours, each with their own colour. Not all flavours are available everywhere. A partial list:

• Corn/Cereal-mix (orange wrapper): plain digestive biscuit covered with chocolate
• Muesli-mix (green wrapper): milk cream topping with raisins and hazelnuts
• Grain-mix (red wrapper)
• Yoghurt and berries-mix (purple wrapper): yoghurt cream topping with red berries
• Almond and honey-mix (yellow wrapper)
• Cocos-mix (brown wrapper)
• Hazelnut (blue wrapper)
• Spekulatius-Christmas cookie (dark red wrapper)
• Strawberry yoghurt-mix (red wrapper) (available in Germany)
• Yoghurt with white chocolate (white and pink wrapper) (Limited Edition)
• Yoghurt with strawberry and white chocolate (white and red wrapper) (available in Germany)