Injuries range from being scalded by hot tea or coffee while dunking to breaking a tooth while eating biscuits. An estimated 25 million adults have been injured while eating during a tea or coffee break - with at least 500 landing themselves in hospital, the survey found. The custard cream was found to be the worse offender. It beat the cookie to top a table of 15 generic types of biscuit whose potential dangers were calculated by The Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation.

Custard creams get a risk rating of 5.63, this compared to 1.16 for Jaffa cakes, which was the safest biscuit of all in the evaluation.  Research company Mindlab International were commissioned by Rocky, a chocolate biscuit bar, to conduct the research. It found almost a third of adults said they had been splashed or scalded by hot drinks while dunking or trying to fish the remnants of a collapsed digestive.

It also revealed 28 per cent had choked on crumbs while one in 10 had broken a tooth or filling biting a biscuit. More unusually, three per cent had poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit and seven per cent bitten by a pet or "other wild animal" trying to get their biscuit. Mindlab International director Dr David Lewis said: "We tested the physical properties of 15 popular types of biscuits, along with aspects of their consumption such as 'dunkability' and crumb dispersal."

I always said that biscuits were the Devil's toenails.

It was ironic when you remembered the Jaffa Cake's safety record...

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