Has anyone been eating this or has tried it? Its pretty good. Significantly less sugar and a lower glycemic index. Not bad for a diet deviation or healthy option.
I tried some samples at a recent trade show - it tasted pretty good, less noticeably sweet but very good. As long as it’s used as a substitute for other treats I could see it as a part of balanced approach to diet.
I love this stuff, especially the Snickers and Milky Way knockoffs. The M&Ms are good, but since they are colored with natural dyes, they are not that bright.
I’m willing to try them even if the colors are off. Does the chocolate taste like chocolate? Off-brand candy often has waxy tasting chocolate. Do they make anything in dark chocolate? The website doesn’t really say, unfortunatly.
The M&Ms have a more dark chocolate taste than reg. M&Ms. My son was eating the M&Ms and said they look like stones and thought it was cool. I think the Snickers is much better than reg. Snickers. Basically all these taste similar to their main counterpart, but with out the edge of intense sugar.
I did find bags of the ersatz snickers and peanut butter cups. I thought the fun-size snickers-like bars were good, denser than a full size Snickers ™ and more satisfying. I liked the peanut butter cups, which surpised me because I don’t normally like sweetened peanut butter in candy.
The key to this candy is INULIN. It’s a complex carbohydrate that is metabolized differently, and can be used as a substitute for flour, sugar, and fat. It doesn’t taste as sweet as sugar, it contains some fiber, and it has a lower Glycemic Index than regular sugar, so it’s more friendly to Diabetics.
One word of caution: this is NOT a pig-out candy. Inulin can affect some people the same way as sugar alcohols, a common ingredient in “sugar free” candies. The stuff gets to your guts, and the bacteria have a drunken party, leaving you with gut rumbles and the runs.
~VOW
Not to threadshit or anything, but is this kind of the same thing as making sweets for yourself at home, where you can control all the ingredients? I theorize that the cookies I usually make and have on hand are healthier for us than store-bought cookies, but I’ve never been sure of that.
I think you’re right, Cat Whisperer, even the Unjunked website says it’s still candy. It’s just **less **bad for you than the mass-produced candy with corn syrup, preservatives, and fillers.
Can you buy inulin?
When I was doing the low carb thing I made some great chocolates with erythritol and liquid sucralose (just add to cocoa and coconut oil!) but they are both expensive and hard to come by.
Good question. This thread inspired me to make “healthfood cookies” yesterday - for sweetening, I used a smaller amount of brown sugar and some molasses, and they turned out very delicious (I also put oatmeal, coconut, cranberries, toasted almonds, raisins, chocolate protein powder, and chocolate chips in them).
I think it would be very difficult to make cookies worse for you than regular store-bought cookies (Oreos, Chips Ahoy, etc.)
I tried their peanut butter cups. Different flavor than Reese’s (less sweet), but still good. They don’t skimp on the chocolate and were overall very good candy.
Here is inulin from a vendor I have used in the past:
http://www.iherb.com/Search?kw=inulin&x=0&y=0#cid=1608&none
~VOW
I tried it today. Took me a little bit to find the candies, but I finally found them. I agree that the peanut butter cups don’t taste like Reese’s, but they’re good in their own right.
I ave seen them in Walgreens in the diabetic candy/protein bar section