Walden Farms "Calorie Free" foods?

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Omelet wrote:

I have a jar of the jelly but so far I have not opened it.

I tried the chocolate spread and for some reason it passed through me
extremely quickly. Some folks get that reaction to sugar alcohols but I
generally don't so I wonder if it was something else about it.

I had the pancake syrup. Watery but there's no really good way out of
that with a low carb syrup. It tasted fine. There didn't seem to be
much point to using on ice cream but I used it that way anyhow.


They aren't carb free for me either. I have decided that I will not
deduct grams of sugar alcohol from my carb count. There's no requirment
that anyone else follow my example but I suggest you think about the
financial motivations for making statements on labels and consider not
taking labels at face value. Try to decide independent of what it says
on labels. Diabetic groups suggest counting sugar alcohols at 50%. I'm
more conservative than that guideline.
 
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Doug Freyburger wrote:



I thought there had to be some fiber (6 grams?) before you could get away
with that anyway.


I just wrote another post on the subject of sugar alcohols. To me, it's
almost pointless.

For me, sugar alcohols might as well be laxative. No worries though because
I don't like the off taste/aftertaste from them, or from most artificial
sweeteners, and my A1Cs can be just a little high, borderline, (6.3 down
into high 5s) so it's easily managed. Doc isn't happy that I won't take
metformin but it has the same effect on my digestion as the fake sugars.
Still I try to pay attention to best practices because my GF has much more
compelling issues with it.

MartyB
 
Nunya Bidnits wrote:

That does mean you could deduct the grams if you wanted. You clearly
don't absorb the carbs. Of course you see the condundrum in that!

For me, sugar alcohols don't have that effect. It's a hint that my body
absorbs them. I did some experimentation on myself that told me I
absorb at least half and with that data on myself I didn't bother
getting any finer detail. I just started counting all SA grams.
 
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