Extra fruit sensations???

[heavenly rose08]

Hello to all my atkins people i have a question ,ive been on atkins for over 4 months now and i have basically everything downpacked,but what i wanted to know is if chewing gum is allowed? Extra fruit sensations to be exact the nutrution facts state,fat 0,calories 5, sugars 0 sugar alcohol 2 gr,carbs 2.any responses would be greatly appreciated!

[Georgiana]

Re: Extra fruit sensations???

Why do you want to have chewing gum? For "snacking"? For eating something sweet? At the end of the day, there's no difference between chewing gum and other junk food like Atkins bars, diet coke, etc.

But to answer your question... Most SF chewing gums I saw are sweetened with sorbitol, which is an allowed sugar alcohol... so you can subtract it from the total carbs. However, some people are stalled by sugar alcohols and should count them toward their net carbs. It depends on each person... As a rule of thumb, if they don't cause you to visit the bathroom, you should count them as net carbs.

[Georgiana]

Re: Extra fruit sensations???

I've just seen something posted by not2late that might interest you, so I'm going to quote her:

Just a comment about those sugar alcohols, Biogeek told me that the American Diabetes Association tells diabetic people to count 1/2 of the listed sugar alcohols because it does have an impact on blood sugar (as Brook mentioned.) And since diabetics really need to monitor their blood sugars, it kind of tells you something about the sugar alcohols and their "no effect on blood sugar" claims.....