When A Diabetic Recipe Is Not Diabetic
I have been watching my sugar intake for the last 30+ years. Looking for sugar-free or No Sugar Added recipes is ingrained in me. I was following a string of 50 recipes that said they were diabetic. Reading the summaries and looking at the photos, I kept skimming until a recipe sparked my interest.
It was a soft chocolate chip cookie recipe. Eureka I have been looking for such a recipe. I was thinking maybe the author had found a sugar free chocolate chip. All I knew was that I needed to know where to get some. I clicked that button and started running down the list of ingredients. Oh oh brown sugar, a full cup, packed. What is going on, did I get onto the wrong website I thought. Well, maybe it’s a typo. Where are those chocolate chips? I told myself to keep looking for those chips.
Hershey’s Sugar-Free Chocolate Chips, 8 oz – Amazon.com
The Big Reveal
I finally get to the bottom of the list and there it is, 2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips. Semi-sweet chocolate chips you have got to be kidding me, these chips are pure sugar. Well onto the next recipe, I looked at the ingredients. There it was again, sugar. 
I was so upset at this misinformation that I had to leave a comment. I can only imagine someone new to the diabetic side of life thinking “I can have these because this website says they are diabetic”. Another disappointment for me, but I will keep looking.
To all who have crossed over to this diabetic state, I say read the ingredient list for sugars on all products you intend to consume. There are so many names for sugar. You as a new diabetic need to read labels for sugar content and familiarize yourself with those aliases for sugar.
All Sugar-Free Cookies – Amazon.com
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