Low Carb Diet Foods That You Should Be Eating
February 25, 2008
With the explosion in popularity of low carbohydrates diets, low carb diet foods have become very popular as well. This has brought some good and bad foods to the market. While I could go on and on about the bad ones (i.e. low carb chocolate), today I wanted to talk about two great “regular” foods that have gone low carb.
I’m talking about Heinz One Carb Ketchup and Hood Calorie Countdown milk (Chocolate is my favorite). First let’s look at One Carb. As innocent as ketchup looks it always contains a nice dose of added sugar - high fructose corn syrup in regular ketchup and usually cane sugar if you spring for the organic stuff. One Carb is different. Instead of the standard 5-8 grams of carbs per serving as the name states One Carb has just 1 gram of carbs. It is sweetened with splenda so you don’t feel like you are eating tomato paste but it isn’t overboard sweet. I recommend that even people that aren’t on a low carb diet check out One Carb ketchup as it is a great way to cut out unnecessary calories from sugar from an unlikely source.
Next up is Calorie Countdown Milk. When Hood first released this onto the market it was called “Carb Countdown.” Apparently branding this product as a low carb product wasn’t working for Hood as they switched the name. Fortunately they didn’t mess with the formula. Chocolate Carb…sorry CALORIE Countdown Milk has only 5 grams of carbs per 1 cup serving compared to 30 grams per serving as seen in some brands and 12 grams as found in regular milk. Not only did Hood remove the added sugar from choco-lating the milk (yes, I made that word up) they also removed some of the naturally occurring sugars in milk (lactose). This is good news not only for low carbers but people afflicted with lactose intolerance (myself included). This stuff is goooood. Now, Hood isn’t exactly giving this milk away as it is more in the price range of organic milk but even if your grocery budget doesn’t allow for a weekly half gallon of this chocolate food science masterpiece you’ll definitely want to treat yourself every so often to glass.
As Frank the Tank so delicately put it “When it hits your lips it’s just so good”. Seriously, you’ll feel like you’re cheating on your diet but you’re definitely not. Again as with One Carb Ketchup even if you aren’t a low carber this should make it into your nutritional rotation.
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