Anyone Tried "Walden Farms" syrups?

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Has anyone tried any of the Walden Farms syrups?
I got the chocolate and the maple. They are pretty good, and they are zero carbs, zero calories and zero sugar alcohols. I don't know how they do it.

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Re: Anyone Tried "Walden Farms" syrups?

By working out the numbers for a smallish serving I assume.
As long as you stick to this amount and dont have several servings worth you can 'sort of' trust the numbers.

I looked at the info for the chocolate syrup and see its ingredients include cocoa powder, so it must have 'some' calories/carbs as cocoa powder has 2 net carbs per tablespoon according to fitday - and in fact there is a note that it contains 'trace calories' in tiny letters at the bottom of the label.

I know they are allowed to claim zero if it has less than 0.5 carbs, so if you are eating more than one serving I would count 0.4 net carbs per serving.

And of course - make sure you count the sweetener in your max of 3 per day.

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Re: Anyone Tried "Walden Farms" syrups?

And of course - make sure you count the sweetener in your max of 3 per day.

Can I have more Splenda than 3 per day if I count it?
I thought the reason we count Splenda is for the filler that is put in to the granular version. Foods that contain Splenda have pure Splenda with no filler.

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Re: Anyone Tried "Walden Farms" syrups?

Hmmm. After some web surfing, I see that 3 servings during induction is the limit. I don't remember reading that in the book. I do have the old Atkins book that was before sucralose was on the market. I thought artificial sweeteners weren't a problem unless it was Nutrasweet Did the rules change?

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Re: Anyone Tried "Walden Farms" syrups?

Okay, I just looked in my book. There is no limit for sucralose. Atkins says to count each packet a 1 carb. The only place in the induction chapter where I see a limit of 3 packets is regarding saccharin, he says to limit it to three because it may be dangerous to have any more than that.