At the Gluten-Free Allergen-Free Expo one of the food products we were able to sample and then purchase were new “snack” bars from Enjoy Life. They come in four flavors but I purchased Chocolate Sunbutter, S’mores, and Cinnamon Bun.
Enjoy Life is one of my favorite brands as their products are all free of all eight major allergens (wheat-free, dairy-free, nut-free, soy-free, egg-free, peanut-free and of course free of fish and shellfish) and all gluten-free.
Personally I like the slightly less sweet sunbutter crunch bars, but these bars all have a drizzle of frosting on the top. They are rich chewy and decadent and I certainly was not thinking that they would be low in sugar. I bought them specifically for those times when we eat out and there is nothing on the dessert menu my son can eat but other people insist on having dessert anyway.
These bars have 9, 10 and 11 grams of sugar per bar. That means that these frosted, marshmallowy, chocolatey bars have between 2 and three teaspoons of sugar. One tablespoon or less per bar. Since they taste like candy I thought I better check for other sweeteners. There were none.
Compare these numbers to those on supposedly healthy gluten-free bars and you are in for a shock. Many of the other bars have scary amounts of sugar in them. We can eat nuts so we were eating Larabars for a while, but then when I realized how much sugar was in them and I decided that they definitely needed to be, in the words of Cookie Monster, a sometimes food.
They are now available at Whole Foods and probably other health food stores. If you want to learn more about these bars you can check out the bars on their website here.
http://www.enjoylifefoods.com/decadent-bars/chocolate-sunbutter/
One word of caution, these bars taste good and as you can see rather low in carbs and calories. I could see people with no food allergies buying them just because they are a treat and yet they are low in sugar and calories.
Save some for your kids.
