i believe the softer bars contain more polyols (sugar alcohols). they get subtracted from the carb content as they have minimal impact on blood sugar levels. i dont have any to hand but if you check on ingredients or nutritional values it may list them under carb content. if you take this off total carbs it may bring them down...
dont quote me lol but i have a feeling the softer ones may have these fake 'sugars' in!
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LOL, look - I'm quoting you...
I think you're right. As a former 'Atkins' girl' who participated on low carb forums, the whole polyol (sugar alcohol) thing came up quite a bit.
To cut a long story short, a few people's bodies seem to treat these artificial sugars as carb (which is why those people later go on to suspect that they're sensitive to bars) although on a low calorie diet, this is less significant than it is on a low carb Atkins-ie type diet.
Personally, I think the CD bars get a bad rep purely because people start eating them in week 3 - which just happens to coincide with the point where weight loss on this diet (and pretty much every diet) slows down. People blame the bars instead though - and so throw the baby out with the bathwater and stop eating them when in fact, it wouldn't have made any difference at all.
IMHO, I think you could only categorically decide that having the bars slows your weight loss if you were to have one every day for a month. Trouble is, most of us are in such a hurry to lose weight, we're not prepared to take the chance that it might be the bars and so we cut them out.
Personally, I've never found that having a bar every day significantly affects my rate of loss.
