Parle-G
It's from 1939, before you were born.
- Maker
- Parle Products
- Origin
- India
- Debuted
- 1939
- Note
- among the world's best-selling biscuits
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About
As of 2026, it's 87 years old.
Parle-G is a plain, cheap glucose biscuit and quite possibly one of the best-selling biscuits in the entire world — a snack so woven into Indian daily life that the little girl on its yellow-and-white wrapper is more recognizable to a billion-plus people than most celebrities. Its natural habitat is a cup of chai, into which it is dunked with great ceremony.
First sold in 1939, it became a staple across every class line in India, beloved precisely for being affordable, unfussy, and always there.
Simple, sweet, and built for dunking, Parle-G is comfort food at a scale most brands can only dream of.
Parle-G through the years
First sold in India
An affordable glucose biscuit for the masses.
A national institution
Becomes one of the world's top-selling biscuits by volume.
