Hey Everyone,

I'm new to the site, but been a low carber for the last few years. I'v found lots of new recipes recently and they all contain chocolate! .. unfortunately its unsweetened chocolate which has proven nearly impossible to find a decent amount for a sane price online. Best one iv found so far is this... 1kg for £8.52.

http://www.plamilfoods.co.uk/no-add...-catering-drops

When I looked at the nutritional label i was quite shocked to see it had 41g of carbs and only 8.5g of fiber! Surely that cant be right?

Does anyone else use unsweetened chocolate?

Does it have "polyols"??? Those are alcohol sugars that supposedly can be deducted from the overall carbs - they also can give you a bit of an upset tummy if you eat too much, so self limiting!!!!!

Jo xxx

I use unsweetened cocoa powder + butter or coconut oil + SF sweetener for baking.

I can't stand SF chocolate.

Actually as it is a non-USA label those 41 carbs are the same as "net carbs", outside USA the fibre is not counted as being a carbohydrate at all!!

Cocoa mass has about 55% fat/30% carbs/15% protein; xylitol has about 4 carbs per teaspoon (from sugar alcohol); cocoa butter is all fat; so the product is bound to have lots of carbs and not a lot of fibre in it.

Unsweetened cocoa powder has about 2 net carbs per tablespoon (at least the one in my pantry has) so if I want to make chocolate I make chocolate bark like MissPi suggested.

If you want chocolate its best to use something like this:

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Prod...s/?id=264587407


Lee

Welcome!!

Yes, that is what I eat too. Delicious! I even got used to the 99% cacao, same brand. Fantastic with a dark espresso!

Cheers ladies

I'm going to try the Lindt 90% chocolate :/ bit scared about the sugar content though.
Just finished writing up a recipe for a Mississippi mud pie which ill use the Lindt in.

Can't wait to test and eat it!

What's the carb count of that 90% Lindt stuff?

And what's chocolate bark?

Often called "coconut bark"

Here's one recipe from the "Sweet Treats" forum
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...534#post5547534

Thanks for the info.

I usually upload any pictures into the gallery from my computer then take the link that shows below the photo and paste that into a post.

Can you get Chocoperfection in the UK? It is wonderful!

http://www6.netrition.com/lc_specia...choco_bars.html

I googled and found this Pollyanna - not much information on it but has the same name.

http://www.avidlite.co.uk/acatalog/...50g-ALC121.html