Fifty50 No Sugar Added Chocolate Coated Peanut Butter Snack Bars

By: Tanya Taylor, PhD | Oct 4, 2006

Fifty50 makes low glycemic, sugar free foods primarily for diabetics. The name fifty50 is indicative of the fact that they contribute 50% of their profits to diabetes research. I decided to try their "No Sugar Added Chocolate Coated Peanut Butter Snack Bars" and I really wanted to like it because the company is doing such a good thing - but I didn't.

The Fifty50 chocolate coated peanut butter snack bars looks like two squares of chocolate. If you just take a bite off the edge so you get a taste of only the chocolate coating, it does remind me a little bit of chocolate. It has the smooth texture you would expect from chocolate but it is not as sweet or as creamy - sort of like chocolate's 2nd cousin - not too far removed, but far enough. The peanut butter middle layer is like a wafer. It doesn't have a very strong peanut butter taste - thankfully because I am not really a big peanut butter fan (sad but true) - and if you can forgive the fact that it is not as sweet as you expected (it is after all 'no sugar added') then I think you might like find the taste not entirely unpleasant. If you are diabetic, then this would be a good substitute. If you are just avoiding chocolate because you're on a diet - forget about this. The print on the wrapper says, "Not a low calorie food" and there is a good reason why.

Those two bars constitute one serving which is 190 calories, 14 grams of fat which is 22% of the daily value, 7 grams from saturated fat which is 34% of the daily value, 0.5 grams of trans fat. There are 17 grams total carbohydrates which includes 3 grams of sugars and 11 grams of maltitol (sugar alcohol).

You know the drill about sugar alcohols - too much will send you to the bathroom. How much is too much? It varies according to the individual. One of these didn't really do much to me. I had another one for the next two days - and no side effects.

One bag has 7 snack bars and cost about $3.00. Check out the review of Turtle Mountain's Cherry Nirvana Ice Cream (diary free). Half a cup is 190 calories and 9 grams of fat. So a not so great tasting chocolate bar, or a 1/2 cup of ice cream ... hmmm ...

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