Lowcarbezine!

Product Review: Chocolate!

Just a couple of quickies:

* The Sorbee brand of sugar-free products has been around for years, often appearing in the "diabetic" section of mainstream grocery stores. They now have "Fine European Chocolate" bars, in both dark and milk. I have the dark chocolate bar in front of me, and I'm pleased to say that both the flavor and the texture are excellent. This is nice because Sorbee products are often found (at least in my experience) in stores that don't do much to cater to low carbers. They also tend to run a little cheaper than some of the chocolate bars aimed specifically at the low carb market. They're in a shiny gold wrapper; look for them!

* Venerable candy company Russell Stover has long had a line of sugar-free chocolate candies, which they've recently re-positioned as specifically low carb. I've tried a couple of these - the peanut butter cups are fine, the chocolate truffle cups struck me as overly sweet. But I've had reports from readers that the price on these products jumped quite a lot when they were re-labeled "low carb." A big raspberry to Russell Stover for profiteering off of us. After all, the cost of making the candies hasn't gone up just because they changed the label. Phooey.

Posted by HoldTheToast at January 10, 2004 07:56 PM