A perfect chocolate as part of a low carb, sugar free or keto diet
If you have diabetes, you know how difficult it can sometimes be to have a low glycemic index. Often you deny yourself a little pleasure because, deemed too sweet and can harm your blood sugar. That's why this milk chocolate with almonds from Torras will satisfy all your cravings. Only sweetened with Stevia and erythritol and containing no refined sugar, you can enjoy this little gourmet break without fearing for your health. Also, this sugar free chocolate is ideal for a low carb diet or a sugar free diet. Even being a diabetic person, you can therefore allow yourself to succumb to a little chocolate square from time to time.
The health benefits of chocolate
Far too often, we tend to believe that we should totally ban chocolate as part of a diet. This is a fatal mistake, even if you want to ensure a good weight loss because, chocolate has many benefits. Whether it is dark or milk chocolate, it is above all a powerful source of magnesium. Magnesium is essential to ensure the proper functioning of the body because it helps fight against depressive symptoms and has a beneficial effect on the brain. Moreover, chocolate is full of antioxidants, which are essential for good health and energy. Also, whether you are following a keto diet or simply want to take care of your health, sugar-free chocolate is for you.
Characteristics and qualities:
Chocolate without added sugar with milk and almond slivers with stevia without gluten, net weight 125 g with 40% cocoa minimum. In the history of chocolate, the TORRAS chocolate factory (Girona, Spain) has distinguished itself for making no sugar added chocolate since 1890. With a low glycemic index because it is sweetened with stevia plant extracts, biting into this chocolate becomes a healthy pleasure and not a guilt, to be enjoyed without complexes and without gaining weight. Notice to addicts ...
Benefits:
Everything is said when we compare the energy value for the amounts of sugar present in a milk chocolate of the trade far too sweet (about 52 g of sugar on average for 100 g) with this chocolate without added sugar (14. 5 g of naturally occurring sugars per 100 g).
Moreover, going on a low-carb or low-calorie diet without indulging in small pleasures is very frustrating and unfortunately very often doomed to failure. To accompany your will of weight loss or maintenance of the line, it can represent the small 'cracking' without consequence. In the same line, discover also the dark chocolate without sugar on our store as well as the whole range of chocolates without added sugar low carb.
Sweeteners, substitutes for sugar
Replacing sugar by Stevia and erythritol is it good for health? Who of the glycemic index?
- Decryption:
Stevia: Original to South America, stevia is a sweetener of natural origin containing zero calories and possessing a significant sweetening power. It is by extracting the leaves of the plant bearing the same name that the sweetener is manufactured. According to some American studies, glycosides present in stevia extract would contribute to the reduction of blood pressure, to the reduction of glucose absorption in the intestine thus promoting a decrease in blood sugar levels.
Erythritol: Natural sweetener that we find in fruits (such as melon, grapes, pear), fermented foods (miso) or soy sauce that produces a very low level of glucose in the blood with almost 0 calories (0.2 kcal/g against 4 for sugar).
- Health impacts:
Polyols = sweeteners used in the manufacture of this milk chocolate, (here Stevia and Erythritol), substitutes for sugar used in chocolate bars by the food industry. In addition, they do not induce an increase in blood sugar in case of diabetes, do not cause insulin spikes and are not responsible for the appearance of cavities.
- Low GI:
We clearly know today that the role of the glycemic index as a tool for comparing the different food products we consume is crucial.
In fact, the GI allows us to make a comparison of food products according to their ability to raise the blood sugar level. (= blood sugar). In fact, the higher the GI of a food, the more it raises blood sugar.
On the basis of 100 representing the highest GI, here are some examples of products and their associated GI:
White baguette = 95
White sandwich bread = 70
Whole bread = 71
White rusk = 68
Whole bread = 65
Chocolate powder (sweetened)= 60
Milk chocolate = 50
Thus, we can notice very distinctly that even wholemeal bread has a glycemic index above 55.
Milk chocolate thus has a GI of 50 but it should still be consumed in moderation if it is made with a large amount of carbohydrates.
The glycemic index (GI) can be classified as follows:
- High GI if > 70
- Moderate GI when it is between 56 and 69
- Low GI if < 55
About whom is this product intended?
This product is for diabetics as well as anyone who wants to control their sugar intake and thus prevent weight gain. And of course anyone who follows a low carb diet.
Recipes ideas and small pleasures:
Eat a small square of milk chocolate and almonds without added sugar for a snack, dipped in a good hot coffee that melts slowly...simply.
Also, crushed into small pieces and sprinkled in a verrine of fresh fruit as a dessert.
To be stored dry and cool.
13g
of protein per 100g