Guide to Buying Chocolate For Diabetic Person's

To help you decide among all the options out there, we taste-tested a number of sugar-free chocolate products (and some portion-controlled ones, too). But first, let's talk about how having a little chocolate every day could actually be good for you.

Chocolate have some health benefits,studies have indicated that cocoa and darker types of chocolate may help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, decrease blood pressure, and relax blood vessels.

Many of the health benefits of chocolate seem to stem from the antioxidant flavanols which are also found in other plant foods including tea, grapes, grapefruit, and wine. The cocoa bean happens to be extraordinarily rich in them.

The first thing I learned while surveying the sugar-free chocolate market was that certain drug stores and supermarkets each stock certain brands of sugar-free chocolate. So, if you're looking for a certain brand, keep going to different stores.
I also soon discovered that the sugar replacement du jour for sugar-free chocolates is maltitol (a sugar alcohol). Almost all of the companies who make sugar-free chocolates are using it.

Sugar-free doesn't mean saturated-fat free, or calorie-free. Chocolate tastes so good because of two things: the sweet ingredient (maltitol, in the case of sugar-free chocolate), and cocoa butter. And cocoa butter is rich in saturated fat. For example, five pieces of Russell Stover Sugar Free Chocolate Candy Miniatures add up to 190 calories, 14 grams of total fat, and 9 grams of saturated fat.

If you don't want to go sugar-free, the trick is enjoying your chocolate (preferably the flavanol-contributing dark chocolate) in small portions. And you can easily find portion-controlled chocolate options, whether you choose mini-bars, kisses, or "nuggets."

One of the more nutritious and satisfying dark chocolate options out there is Hershey's Special Dark Nuggets with Almonds. This way, you get some nutritious almonds along with your dose of dark chocolate. If you can be satisfied with 2 of these "nuggets," (19 grams) this would add up to 110 calories, 7 grams of fat, 3 grams of saturated fat (0 trans fat), 10 grams of carbohydrate and 1.5 grams of fiber and 1.5 grams of protein.