CarboRite Sugarfree

Another bar my mom sent was CarboRite SugarFree.

It argues: Total Carb = 15.00. Fiber = 0. However, they subtracted 14 grams
of Sugar Alcohols for a grand total of 1 Net Carb.

Is this fishy?

Ingredients: Chocolate [Lacititol, Maltitol, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate Liquor,
Sodium Caseinate, Milk Fat, Soya Lecithin (an emulsifier), Vanillin (artificial
flavor), Sucralose (Splenda Brand), Natural Flavor, Vanilla, Salt], Peanut
Butter [Maltitol, Peanuts, Partially Hydrogenated Palm, Cottonseed, and
Rapeseed Oils, Coconut Oil, Fractininated Palm Kernel Oil, Sodium Caseinate,
Milk Fat, Glycerol-lacto Esters of Fatty Acids, Soya Lecithin (emulsifier),
Citric Acid, Vanillan (artificial flavor), Natural Flavor]

Sobe203 wrote:

Another bar my mom sent was CarboRite SugarFree.

It argues: Total Carb = 15.00. Fiber = 0. However, they subtracted 14
grams of Sugar Alcohols for a grand total of 1 Net Carb.

Is this fishy?

Ingredients: Chocolate [Lacititol, Maltitol, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate
Liquor, Sodium Caseinate, Milk Fat, Soya Lecithin (an emulsifier),
Vanillin (artificial flavor), Sucralose (Splenda Brand), Natural Flavor,
Vanilla, Salt], Peanut Butter [Maltitol, Peanuts, Partially Hydrogenated
Palm, Cottonseed, and Rapeseed Oils, Coconut Oil, Fractininated Palm
Kernel Oil, Sodium Caseinate, Milk Fat, Glycerol-lacto Esters of Fatty
Acids, Soya Lecithin (emulsifier), Citric Acid, Vanillan (artificial
flavor), Natural Flavor]

Your mother, while well meaning, and her heart is in the right place, sent
you a cocktail of junk food that really is not much benefit to your diet.
Eat and enjoy, but please use them sparingly. YMMV
--
The post you just read, unless otherwise noted, is strictly my opinion
and experience. Please interpret accordingly.

Sobe203 wrote:
| Another bar my mom sent was CarboRite SugarFree.
|
| It argues: Total Carb = 15.00. Fiber = 0. However, they subtracted
| 14 grams of Sugar Alcohols for a grand total of 1 Net Carb.
|
| Is this fishy?
|
| Ingredients: Chocolate [Lacititol, Maltitol, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate
| Liquor, Sodium Caseinate, Milk Fat, Soya Lecithin (an emulsifier),
| Vanillin (artificial flavor), Sucralose (Splenda Brand), Natural
| Flavor, Vanilla, Salt], Peanut Butter [Maltitol, Peanuts, Partially
| Hydrogenated Palm, Cottonseed, and Rapeseed Oils, Coconut Oil,
| Fractininated Palm Kernel Oil, Sodium Caseinate, Milk Fat,
| Glycerol-lacto Esters of Fatty Acids, Soya Lecithin (emulsifier),
| Citric Acid, Vanillan (artificial flavor), Natural Flavor]


Many people have no problems with sugar alcohols, others will say that
they're straight from the pits of nutritional hell. In actuality, it's a
YMMV thing; you need to find out whether they affect you or not.

The fact is that sugar alcohols, like fiber, do not affect blood sugar
levels in most people so they can be subtracted from total carb counts.
Sugar alcohols pass through the stomach and upper intestine undigested, and
partially ferment in the lower intestine. This causes gas in many people,
but usually only when eaten in too large a quantity. (I see this as a good
thing; it keeps me from eating too many Atkins Advantage bars g)

Personally I have no problem with eating sugar alcohols occassionally; I'md
iabetic and they do not affect my BG or cause problems with my weight loss,
so a low-carb SA-sweetened treat once in a while for me is not out of the
question. The key though is "once in a while."

I suspect that if you sit down and eat five or six of the bars, you'll
rapidly find out why so many diss them. And so will everyone in your
household.

--
Peter
270/219/180
website:
http://users.thelink.net/marengo/bef...eafterpix.html

Beyond the issue of the sugar alcohols, the label is still fishy.

There are carbs in peanuts. There are carbs in bakers' chocolate which is
what "chocolate liquor" is.

Hydrogenated oils are poison. Every single low carb diet book author urges
you not to eat them because they deposit right smack onto your arteries.
These bars are full of them.

-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.4.
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes,
strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/

Looking for help controlling your blood sugar?
Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm



"Sobe203" wrote in message
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Another bar my mom sent was CarboRite SugarFree.

It argues: Total Carb = 15.00. Fiber = 0. However, they subtracted 14
grams
of Sugar Alcohols for a grand total of 1 Net Carb.

Is this fishy?

Ingredients: Chocolate [Lacititol, Maltitol, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate
Liquor,
Sodium Caseinate, Milk Fat, Soya Lecithin (an emulsifier), Vanillin
(artificial
flavor), Sucralose (Splenda Brand), Natural Flavor, Vanilla, Salt], Peanut
Butter [Maltitol, Peanuts, Partially Hydrogenated Palm, Cottonseed, and
Rapeseed Oils, Coconut Oil, Fractininated Palm Kernel Oil, Sodium
Caseinate,
Milk Fat, Glycerol-lacto Esters of Fatty Acids, Soya Lecithin
(emulsifier),
Citric Acid, Vanillan (artificial flavor), Natural Flavor]

Sobe203 wrote:
Another bar my mom sent was CarboRite SugarFree.

It argues: Total Carb = 15.00. Fiber = 0. However, they
subtracted 14 grams of Sugar Alcohols for a grand total of 1
Net Carb.

Is this fishy?

Ingredients: Chocolate [Lacititol, Maltitol, Cocoa Butter,
Chocolate Liquor, Sodium Caseinate, Milk Fat, Soya Lecithin
(an emulsifier), Vanillin (artificial flavor), Sucralose
(Splenda Brand), Natural Flavor, Vanilla, Salt], Peanut
Butter [Maltitol, Peanuts, Partially Hydrogenated Palm,
Cottonseed, and Rapeseed Oils, Coconut Oil, Fractininated
Palm Kernel Oil, Sodium Caseinate, Milk Fat, Glycerol-lacto
Esters of Fatty Acids, Soya Lecithin (emulsifier), Citric
Acid, Vanillan (artificial flavor), Natural Flavor]

Trash -- Well meaning but like the witch giving Snow White the
appple. It is junk food and contains stuff not good for your diet.
Eat sparingly.

BJ