GMB’s Susanna Reid weighs in on Daily Star’s Jaffa Cake row as she slams snack

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    • Good Morning Britain hosts Susanna Reid and Ed Balls loved our front page on the highly controversial Jaffa Cakes.

    Daily Star reported on Tuesday (April 25) that the infamous Jaffa Cakes are the most dunkable biscuit to dip in tea, according to research – but cake or biscuit? We're not so sure.

    GMB's Susanna and Ed were joined by Charlotte Hawkins to put dunking to the test – but Susanna kicked it off by declaring the sweet snack is not a biscuit.

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    She said to co-host Ed: "The clue is in the name. It's a Jaffa Cake, it's not a Jaffa Biscuit is it? No," while Charlotte asked if Susanna felt it should be discounted.

    The two hosts Susanna and Ed pulled up the front of the newspaper to show viewers during Wednesday’s episode (April 26).

    And – much like us, they found the findings quite controversial.

    Susanna held up our paper and said: “It’s on the front of the Daily Star, there we go – Jaffa cake horror.”

    “The best biscuits, as we all know are rich teas,” Susanna proclaimed.

    “Would you like to give me the list,” Ed asked, while reading from the newspaper.

    “Jaffa cakes: an average 3 minutes 6 seconds life of dunking and you can do 116 dunks.”

    Susanna didn’t seem to agree and chimed in to say: “You can’t do 116 bites of a Jaffa cake so why would you do 166 dunks?”

    Ed then proceeded to give further information, causing Susanna to blurt “what’s in them?” before shaking her head.

    Finishing off the list, Ed then realised a rich tea failed to make the cut.

    “Exactly,” Susanna quipped, “what about a rich tea?”

    The scientific ‘experiment’ dunked 17 of the most popular biscuits into hot water at the average temperature of a cup of tea – around 70C-75C.

    Researchers recorded how long, and how many dunks, it took them to break apart.

    The chocolate-covered orange jelly jaffa won the competition – despite many claiming that it is a cake rather than a biscuit.

    It survived three minutes and 16 seconds before crumbling, a total of 116 dunks.

    It beat the plain digestive – many people’s favourite biscuit to dip in tea – which was found to be the first to crumble. It took just six dunks for the digestive to suc-crumb, a measly 12 seconds.

    The posh Chocolate Leibniz was second and took two minutes 20 seconds before melting, and 80 dunks.

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