Nice cream bar.First there was the Good Humor Bar, a smooth block of vanilla ice cream coated with a crisp layer of chocolate. By the time you were licking the stick, the bar had delivered 260 calories and 12 grams--more than half a day's worth--of saturated fat. (Of course, before there were Nutrition Facts labels, who knew?) Then the Dove Bar raised the ante, with 320 calories and 13 grams of sat fat in each 3.4-ounce hit. Don't want to make such a big investment in a snack? Healthy Choice Premium Ice Cream Bars slash the calories to 80 and the saturated fat to half a gram, thanks to their low-fat ice cream and paper-thin chocolate coating, as well as the sugar substitute sorbitol sorbitol /sor·bi·tol/ (sor´bi-tol) a six-carbon sugar alcohol from a variety of fruits, found in lens deposits in diabetes mellitus. . (While safe, sorbitol can have a "laxative laxative, drug or other substance used to stimulate the action of the intestines in eliminating waste from the body. The term laxative usually refers to a mild-acting substance; substances of increasingly drastic action are known as cathartics, purgatives, " effect if you eat too much.) Polydextrose and maltodextrin also replace some of the sugar, but add no calories because they're poorly absorbed. When it comes to your health, even a low-fat ice cream bar is no match for a bowl of berries. And, truth be told, there's no way a low-fat ice cream is going to wow your taste buds like a full-fat Dove Bar. But if you just want a refreshing, ice-cold, chocolate-coated indulgence that won't show up on your midriff midriff /mid·riff/ (-rif) the diaphragm; the region between the breast and waistline. mid·riff n. See diaphragm. or your next angiogram an·gi·o·gram n. An angiographic x-ray of blood vessels used in diagnosing pathological conditions of the cardiovascular system.//An x-ray of one or more blood vessels produced by angiography and used in diagnosing pathology in the cardiovascular , belly up to a Healthy Choice Premium Ice Cream Bar (or Fudge Bar or Ice Cream Sandwich Ice cream sandwiches are handheld desserts consisting of a slice of ice cream (usually vanilla), with a small layer of a soft cake-like pastry (usually chocolate) on the top and bottom. ). Healthy Choice: (800) 323-9980. |
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