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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / January 2004Carb Fit--more
Carb Fit is part of the Hain Celestial Group. These are the same folks who produce Westsoy Soy Slender. I think I should have stock in them instead of McDonald's. Didn't I tell my advisor that I wanted to see that McD's stock?!  SignatureJean B. >Carb Fit is part of the Hain Celestial Group. These are the same >folks who produce Westsoy Soy Slender. I think I should have >stock in them instead of McDonald's. Didn't I tell my advisor >that I wanted to see that McD's stock?! I saw the Carb Fit stuff at Whole Foods last week, so I picked a couple of things up out of curiosity. Good news and bad news: the cookies have a very good texture and an okay flavor, and the nacho twists have a good flavor and an okay texture (a little on the hard side -- "like eating uncooked rotini" was my husband's opinion) -- but both of them raised my blood sugar by about the same amount that non-LC cookies or snack-chip things would. No more of them for me, unfortunately. Em I just bought and had for dinner their spaghetti and hated it. Very cardboard-like and the consistency was not good. > >Carb Fit is part of the Hain Celestial Group. These are the same > >folks who produce Westsoy Soy Slender. I think I should have [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Em > I just bought and had for dinner their spaghetti and hated it. Very > cardboard-like and the consistency was not good. Oh, good--that the reviews are coming in anyway. I guess we all have to wait for the Bella Vita to come back. SignatureJean B. > >Carb Fit is part of the Hain Celestial Group. These are the same > >folks who produce Westsoy Soy Slender. I think I should have [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Em Oh ack! Now did those cookies contain erythritol and inulin like the ones I got the other day? (They don't have two different formulas, do they?) I was leery of the twists, because of the soy and the cardboard texture that some of those products have. Anyway, I should stop thinking of consuming such things. Today, instead of making treats, I will make chili and/or lasagna--with the tofu "noodles", since I do have tofu. (It does occur to me that if I freeze some of the lasagna, the tofu will have an odd texture....) SignatureJean B. >Oh ack! Now did those cookies contain erythritol and inulin like >the ones I got the other day? (They don't have two different >formulas, do they?) Yes, they do have erythritol and inulin. I've eaten other products with those ingredients and didn't get the same BG rise that I got with these cookies, though, so I don't blame them. But the second ingredient is "evaporated cane juice" -- i.e., sugar. Ingredients: natural palm oil, evaporated cane juice, whey protein concentrate, chocolate chips (evaporated cane juice, chocolate, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla), corn starch, erythritol, egg whites, wheat flour, inulin (a natural extract of chicory), rice flour, dried egg whites, natural flavor (vanilla, butterscotch, butter, vegetable glycerin, vegetable gum), leavening (baking soda, cream of tartar, monocalcium phosphate), salt. Serving size: 2 cookies Cal: 110 Fat cal: 70 Carb: 12 g Dietary fiber: 3 g Sugars: 4 g Erythritol: 2 g Protein: 3 g I was leary of some of the ingredients, so I only ate one, and the increase in BG was almost the same as with a regular cookie. Em > >Oh ack! Now did those cookies contain erythritol and inulin like > >the ones I got the other day? (They don't have two different [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > I was leary of some of the ingredients, so I only ate one, and the increase > in BG was almost the same as with a regular cookie. Yes, I saw that "evaporated cane juice". To me, this seems to be a fancy name for sugar, and the cookies are lower carb but not really low carb. Seems to me also that if you want to consume that many carbs, you can have a "real" cookie--and most of us elect not to squander our carb allotments that way. Oh well. Anyway, last night I was thinking that while it's exciting to see all the new products and ingredients, they are beginning to make me nervous. If I eat junk food, even if it is LC junk food, that is unnecessary calories. Ditto if I get back into eating desserts, thinking I need one after dinner. I have to be able to view these things as rare treats--not as something I am entitled to every day. SignatureJean B. >> >Oh ack! Now did those cookies contain erythritol and inulin like >> >the ones I got the other day? (They don't have two different [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > view these things as rare treats--not as something I am entitled > to every day. I agree. If I see a product that contains "cane juice", I know two things: 1) it really contains sugar 2) the manufacturer is a liar. Honest ones would just say sugar instead of trying to mislead me. Hence, I do not buy anything with "cane juice". i > I agree. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > i I wonder why we are seeing that ingredient now? Is it because manufacturers know some of us don't want to see the word "sugar"? Is it an attempt to rehabilitate the product by renaming it? (Like prunes new being called dried plums?) I guess it does rule out beet sugar, but still... SignatureJean B. >> I agree. >> [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I wonder why we are seeing that ingredient now? Is it because > manufacturers know some of us don't want to see the word "sugar"? I would think so, yes. > Is it an attempt to rehabilitate the product by renaming it? > (Like prunes new being called dried plums?) I guess it does rule > out beet sugar, but still... I think that it's just simply wanting to sell sweet stuff (because that's what people buy), without being honest about it, that's all. i |
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