Low Carb Candy
All You Need to Know About Low Carb Candy
With Americans looking for heart-healthy alternatives, low carb candy just makes good sense. Some of these candies are strictly home-made, and some are available in stores.
You can make sugar free, low carb peanut butter cups at home, and the folks who have tried them say that they're better than the diet candy you can find in stores. Most candy makers use a sugar substitute known as erythritol, which is called a sugar alcohol that has almost no effect on your blood sugar, to make foods such as these.
Another popular type of low carb candy is the Belgian dark chocolate bar made by Sorbee. It uses rich dark chocolate, and has zero grams of sugar per serving. It does contain sugar alcohols, but each 2.8 ounce bar has only 3 grams of carbs.
Russell Stover makes a candy bar that is popular with people who are watching their carbs. It is a two-piece chocolate bar, with 1.2 carbs per piece, and none are sugar carbs. Stover's also makes low carb peanut butter crunch that has 0.3 net carbs per piece, and no carbs from sugar.
Ross Chocolates makes a healthy low carb candy bar with Belgian chocolate, which has most of the taste of regular chocolate without all the sugar. This candy is sweetened with Maltitol, with no sugar added. This bar is very low in impactible carbs. It also provides your body with flavonoids and anti-oxidants, which are important to your health.
Ultimate's chocolates offers a low carb and sugar free macadamia nut brittle that looks like a tasty alternative to the high-carb snacks we see on store shelves all the time. This snack has only one net carb per ounce, is hand-made in small batches, is sugar free and contains whole macadamia nuts.
A company called Amber Lyn Chocolates Inc makes low carb candy bars to the tune of over a million annually. They offer Valentine's candies and candy bars with no sugar and low carbs.
Essentia, a diet candy maker, offers an assortment box of sugar free, low carb chocolates. Their flavors are double dark truffle, raspberry truffle, milk and dark chocolate rectangles, mango truffles, caffe con latte truffles and double milk truffles. These look like they would really fit the bill for a healthy snack that would truly sate that craving for chocolate that most of us have, at one time or another.
Landies Candies offers their “Truly Sugar Free” peanut butter bon bons. These are a low carb candy made with sugar free pure milk chocolate.
Many companies now are waking up to the public's need for low carb candy, and are responding by making new low-carb options available to all. Sometimes they are still more expensive to purchase than conventional candies, but they help dieters watch their carbs like regular candies can't.