"Ozlover" > wrote in message
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> Ellen K. > wrote:
>> I have really been craving chocolate and was feeling like I could loosen
>> up
>> a little bit and try a low-carb chocolate bar. Yesterday at Trader Joe's
>> I
>> bought a Simply Lite sugar free Dark Chocolate bar. To me it tastes like
>> the real thing, unlike the Camille Bloch one I bought last week at my
>> local
>> grocery store, and it was also much more economical ($1.99 vs $4.49).
>>
>> Ingredients are Maltitol, Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter, Inulin (natural
>> vegetable fiber), Soy Lecithin, Natural Vanilla, Cinnamon.
>>
>> A bar is 100 gm, 6 rows of 2 squares. The label says the serving size is
>> 25
>> gm, and reports that one serving contains 100 calories, 70 calories from
>> fat, total fat 8 g, sat fat 5 g, trans fat 0 g, cholesterol 0 mg, sodium
>> 0
>> mg, total carb 15 g, dietary fiber 3 g, sugars 0, maltitol 11 g, protein
>> 1
>> g. The only non-zero-percent nutrient is listed as Iron at 8%.
>>
>> I will definitely buy this again.
>
> Make sure that for *you* the maltitol doesn't count as a real (i.e. BG
> increasing) carb!
>
> In the past there have been several reports from people for whom the
> 'ols count fully or mostly as a real carb. Personally I haven't bothered
> to experiment, because I'd rather use portion control and eat the real
> thing. (That goes for any of the 'ols in any product, except for chewing
> gum which always have them.)
>
> --
> Frank Slootweg
>

Thanks for the reminder. I think the -ols are OK for me, I do eat the
CarbSmart ice cream with no untoward BG effects. I do find it's easier to
stick with the planned portion size with the -ol products than with ones
made with real sugar.