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Walden Farms Calorie Free Chocolate, Caramel and Marshmallow Dips
By: | Jan 11, 2009
Walden Farms products are marketed as calorie free, sugar free, fat free, gluten free and there is a long list of 0's on the nutrition label. They have a LOT of products including jams, syrup, peanut butter, BBQ sauce, salad dressing, and many other sauces (including marinara!). The Caramel Dip has already been reviewed - and it was not a favorable review - but the lure of calorie free dips was too strong, so I ignored prior warnings and tried the Walden Farms Chocolate Dip, Caramel Dip, and Marshmallow Dip.
All three dips I tried tasted weird, tangy, chemically, and way too artificially sweet. They all had the same gummy texture, although I think the Caramel dip was tolerable in small amounts. The chocolate dip was revolting! Now this stuff isn't cheap. Each 12 ounce container was over $5.00! Still, the thought of calorie free chocolate made me spend a ridiculous amount of money on these sweets - a decision I intensely regret and hope to save you from.
The ingredients list for the Chocolate is: Triple filtered purified water, defatted cocoa powder, caramel color, natural flavors, cellulose gum, sucralose, salt, potassium sorbate (to preserve freshness), vanilla flavor, lactic acid, xanthan gum. After being puzzled by the fact that there is actual cocoa powder in this dip and they were still labeling it as calorie free, I did some research. Walden Farms states that all of their products contain trace calories, meaning that there is under 5 calories per serving, so by law they are still able to market their goods as calorie free.
I threw all three containers out. The products gave me a terrible stomach ache! Needless to say I won't be buying this again.
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Walden Farms used to make some decent salad dressings - light dressings, mind you, not this vile calorie-free garbage that they've been marketing.
All of their products can be summed up thusly: it is too good to be true.
I absolutely LOVE Walden Farms salad dressings. They have been my savior! But I do agree, most other stuff isn't all that good, and some are downright nasty. (aka the PB spread, mayo spread, chocolate dip..) The fruit spreads are okay, except they have excess liquid and are clumpy when you wanna spread them.
even the thought of eating these dips makes me want to vomit!!! nasty
that stuff is DISGUSTING! i almost threw up when tried it and i had to throw it away. it's just a waste of money.
I mean this in the nicest way possible...
your definition of "nutrition" is completely perverse ..
how does something with no nutrients, full of chemical, fake ingredients rate a 5 on nutrition?
@d - it's a dip for goodness sake - what do you expect to get from it?! Water has no calories, protein, fiber etc - yet I still consider it nutritious. Cucumbers are 90% water ... yet I still consider it nutritious. I'm not saying a dip is nutritious by giving it 5 for a rating - but as far as dips go - you could do MUCH worse ... and I don't expect to get 100% of my daily vitamin C from it - or even 10% from a spoonful.
I am not saying I am expecting some dip to give me the nutrients I need to carry me through the day, I just don’t understand why something that does absolutely nothing good for your body (unlike water and cucumbers, which I consider to be nutritious as well) is rated so high on nutrition.
It just simply makes no sense to me. That's all I meant to say.
@d- I've noticed that the nutrition rating is heavily skewed towards low cal/low fat on iateapie.