Amazon.- Bixby & Co. Dark chocolate bars.- Ghirardelli bars. Ketogenic chocolate fudge is a combination of coconut, cocoa, and MCT oil. Each serving of this product provides 20 grams of fat, so it fits ketogenic diets. A popular product which is known for its good taste. Overall, the bulk of the sweet taste comes from erythritol and stevia, and Lily’s chocolate contains a minimal amount of net carbs. The cocoa content is 60%, which makes the bar quite sweet as it contains a fair bit of erythritol.
Simply Lite contains no added sugar, and it is extremely sweet since it contains more sweetener than it does cocoa. People with hypertension, who are typically advised to limit their intake of all types of sweet and flavorful foods, will be delighted to find that dark chocolate can drop blood pressure by up to 2-3 points. With the high-fat MCT contents of this chocolate, it may not be what some people are looking for in a chocolate bar.
Additionally, this bar contains added fiber and protein, which could be a good thing if you are looking to increase your fiber intake. Santa Barbara Chocolate's 100% Cacao Organic Unsweetened Chocolate Chips and Sugar-Free Stevia Chocolate Chips are perfect for those looking for a sugar-free, diabetic-friendly treat made from extra fine quality cacao beans. Premium and flavorful ingredients such as cocoa beans, cocoa butter, and vanilla beans.
Ingredients: Maltitol, cocoa, cocoa butter, inulin, soy lecithin, vanilla, cinnamon. Ingredients: Unsweetened chocolate, erythritol, inulin, dextrin, whole milk powder, milk fat, stevia, soy lecithin, vanilla. Ingredients: Cacao powder, cacao butter, xylitol, Bulletproof XCT oil powder, tapioca dextrin, tapioca, “lab-tested” vanilla beans. Ingredients: Cocoa mass, dextrin, inulin, oligofructose, erythritol, stevia, cocoa butter, freeze-dried raspberries, freeze-dried blueberry powder, freeze-dried blackcurrants, soy lecithin, natural flavoring.
Ingredients: Cocoa beans, cocoa butter, erythritol, vanilla beans, sunflower lecithin, stevia. Similar to their milk bar, this one contains zero grams of added sugar, and cocoa, erythritol, and stevia are the base ingredients. Added pea protein is not a common thing for a chocolate bar. Ignoring the marketing talk, it seems a decent enough chocolate bar with good ingredients. It’s a tasty bar and not too sweet, and the berries offer a nice flavor contrast.
However, this dark chocolate berries bar does contain a higher amount of net carbs due to freeze-dried berries being an ingredient. We saw Cavalier’s milk chocolate offering earlier, so here is their dark chocolate with berries bar. To get as much caffeine as an 8-ounce cup of coffee, you'd need to eat 14 regular 1.5-ounce milk bars. You only get 4 grams of sugar in that serving size, which is pretty good.
Although it has no added sugar, this bar does contain 1-gram of sugar from the milk. Although it is not technically classed as an added sugar, it is a carbohydrate that does have a glycemic response. With a 60% cacao content, Innocent chocolate is keto-friendly, contains no sugar, soy, gluten, or dairy. First of all, cacao nibs are not really a chocolate bar, but I thought they deserve a place on the list.
Although cacao nibs contain carbohydrate, they are very high in fiber and contain no sugar, which makes them low in net carbs. That said, the exact level of net carbs is still likely to be very low. A keto-friendly bar that is still low in net carbs. After picking, the pods are cut open, and the cocoa beans are carefully removed while still covered in the pulp.
Cacao nibs are nothing other than pure, chopped cacao beans. 100% pure chocolate - cacao nibs are very nutritious and full of minerals. As with all Bulletproof products, there are claims about how “pure” and “enriched” the chocolate is. This bar claims to be creamy and “chocolaty,” and you can see why when you look at the ingredients. Therefore, despite the claims of this chocolate bar, I wouldn’t class it as keto-friendly.
This can translate to 1 to 2 chocolate ‘squares’ in a dark chocolate bar. But overindulging in dark chocolate might blow your calorie budget, and packing on pounds could raise blood pressure. You should be aware that some types of chocolate can cause a spike in blood sugar, and so it is down to reading the label and monitoring your blood glucose (some of our customers tell us the coconut sugar chocolate is great for them even though they have diabetes).
Better yet, choose one that lists sugar last. Refined sugar:Excess sugar leads to more fat creation and fat accumulation5. Here are just a few of the effects of adding more dark chocolate to your diet. Chocolate naturally contains phenylethylamine, which is a chemical that’s also released in the brain during moments of emotional well-being. Contains xylitol, which can be fatal if ingested by dogs.