Low carb snack bars

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I buy Skinny bars at any supermarket. About £1 to £1.25 a pack of 5. Low carb and low calorie. https://skinnybars.co.uk/
They also do very low carb larger, beer and cider which I buy on Amazon.
 
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Lainie71 said:
Have you tried the Keto Hana bars, I have the Keto Granola as a snack or in my protein smoothies. Does not spike, worth perhaps giving a go ;) Also cheaper but not cheap if you know what I mean, off their own website.
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These have erythritol and stevia as sweeteners similar to the Eva Bold bars. This should not raise blood glucose.

You can get these on amazon as well.
 
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My wife liked the Eva Bold Chocolate Orange Keto Protein Bars, but she did say they made her want to have a poo afterwards, probably because of the erythritol. I have ordered some Pulsin Choc Fudge Keto Bars which use Xylitol as a sweetener.
 
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After a quick trip to the local Aldi I found their own Benefit bars Jaffa flavoured with only 10.5 g carb and also as previously mentioned the Skinny ones but Mint & Dark Chocolate 10.1g. I don't know if they are loaded with anything nasty as they both check in at 66cal so wouldn't have thought much else in them.
With my uneducated mind I just look for the carb content on most of the stuff we buy. I am not yet skilled enough to worry about the remainder of the nutrition. I might give them a try and see just how high they get my BS if and when I feel the need to snack.
 
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ChrisT2 said:
After a quick trip to the local Aldi I found their own Benefit bars Jaffa flavoured with only 10.5 g carb and also as previously mentioned the Skinny ones but Mint & Dark Chocolate 10.1g. I don't know if they are loaded with anything nasty as they both check in at 66cal so wouldn't have thought much else in them.
With my uneducated mind I just look for the carb content on most of the stuff we buy. I am not yet skilled enough to worry about the remainder of the nutrition. I might give them a try and see just how high they get my BS if and when I feel the need to snack.
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The Aldi benefit bars are 48% carbs, not surprising when you read the sugar based ingredients. For a tiny bar 10.5g is a lot of carbs.

The skinny mint and chocolate are a whooping 57.9% carbs. Horrendous. Again any lack of rise is pretty much down to the tiny size. Glucose and polydextrose in the ingredient.

It’s the carbs not the calories that affect our blood glucose.
 
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The Aldi benefit bars are 48% carbs, not surprising when you read the sugar based ingredients. For a tiny bar 10.5g is a lot of carbs.

The skinny mint and chocolate are a whooping 57.9% carbs. Horrendous. Again any lack of rise is pretty much down to the tiny size. Glucose and polydextrose in the ingredient.

It’s the carbs not the calories that affect our blood glucose.
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I totally agree its the carbs that count and not the calories but when I look at packets I take into account the total carb content. I am not sure where your percentage figure comes from but in my simple head all I am concentrating on with my diet is my daily carb intake.
If I can have a carb bar or anything else for that matter as a simple snack then I would have thought 10g carbs is permissible if it fits into my daily target. I have not tested my BS after trying one yet but I will and like everything else I will make my choice on the results.
All I wanted to point out was that there were things out there that did meet the low carb criteria unlike the oatcake type stuff and other so called energy bars I was brought up on.
 
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I totally agree its the carbs that count and not the calories but when I look at packets I take into account the total carb content. I am not sure where your percentage figure comes from but in my simple head all I am concentrating on with my diet is my daily carb intake.
If I can have a carb bar or anything else for that matter as a simple snack then I would have thought 10g carbs is permissible if it fits into my daily target. I have not tested my BS after trying one yet but I will and like everything else I will make my choice on the results.
All I wanted to point out was that there were things out there that did meet the low carb criteria unlike the oatcake type stuff and other so called energy bars I was brought up on.
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The % figures come from the manufacturers/retailer websites (The carbs per 100g amount that is listed on all labels). These are most definitely not low carb bars or choices but are actually quite high.

Yes because the size of the portion is so small the overall carbs you need to count in your daily target are relatively low and you may be able to fit it into the count (but it could amount to half some peoples daily carbs). It still doesn’t make them a low carb item. I could say a teaspoon of sugar is low carb if that were the case as it’s only 5 carbs, but it’s ALL carbs.

Other choices that really are low carb would allow you a much better sized portion. I guess it all depends if a tiny snack for a not insignificant amount of carbs is worth it to you and if you can stop at one mouthful, which is all a 20g bar really is.
 
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I had an Adonis bar this morning. It spiked my blood glucose from 6.8 to 9.6 in 50 minutes. Surprising as it contains erythritol as a sweetener.

I just read the label and it contains ... CHOCOLATE COATING(22%) (COCOA MASS, DEXTRIN, COCOA BUTTER, SWEETENER (ERYTHRITOL, STEVIOL GLYCOSIDES FROM STEVIA)

I think Dextrin is short for Maltodextrin ... https://www.webmd.com/diet/what-is-maltodextrin
Dextrin is definitely another ingredient to avoid if you are type 2 along with Maltitol.

The Glycemic Index for Maltodextrin is about 136 which is twice that of table sugar, so it is like rocket fuel.

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