I got a bag of free samples of "low carb" items with my last Netrition order. Dh & I got a real laugh with some of these items.

Better Balance French Vanilla Protein Cereal: 1 oz package

100 calories
15 gms carbs
Fiber 3 gms
Protein 9 gms

Ingredients: Soy protein isolate, yellow corn flour, rice flour, tapioca starch, inulin, pea fiber, natural honey, evaporated cane juice, canola oil, cinnamon powder, vanilla extract, natural flavoring, baking powder, double acting leavening agents, salt.

This on is definitely NOT for me!

Carb Watchers Lean Body Hi-Protein Meal Replacement:

260 calories
Carbs 12
Fiber 4
Sugar 3
Protein 40

One of the ingredients is Corn Syrup Solids. Sigh.

Better Balance Golden ButterTwists Pretzels:

1 oz is 1.5 servings (not 1, not 2, but 1.5)

Per Serving

Calories 110
Carbs 12
Fiber 2
Sugars 1
Protein 10

If you eat the entire bag, chowing down that extra half serving, you'll be getting 15 net carbs in this little 1 oz bag.

Ingredients: Soy isolate, corn starch, sesame seed, palm oil, tapioca starch, fiber gum, cane juice, pea fiber, etc.

Not for me!

Atkins Endulge Peanut Caramel Cluster Bar

1.2 oz bar

110 calories
9 carbs
4 fiber
1 sugar
3 sugar alcohols

They claim net 2 carbs.

Ingredients I don't want:

Maltitol! Yikes!
Non-fat dry milk

Not for me. Ever!

Big Train Low Carb Hot Chocolate:
1 16g pkt

50 calories
10 carbs
1 fiber
2 sugars
5 sugar alcohol

Suspicious ingredients: Non-dairy creamer (Partially hydrogenated coconut oil, corn syrup solids), sugar, as well as erythritol, sucralose, and other stuff.

Not for me!

Spiced Low Carb Chai:

1 pouch 16 gms

60 calories
11 carbs
0 fiber
2 g sugar
7 g sugar alcohol

Suspicious ingredients:

Maltitol (the very incarnation of evil!), Non-dairy creamer (same as above in the hot cocoa mix, with corn syrup solids & hydrogenated coconut oil!)

Not for me!

Cytolean, a package of supplements, not a problem.

2 pkt Stevia Extract, OK.

1 envelope of Emerald Balance Total Nutrition Drink Mix, giving you the antioxidant power of 8 to 10 servings of fruits and vegetables, 100% natural pH balancing, natural energizing....hmm, let's see what's in it.

39 calories
6 g carbs
1.7 g fiber
1 g protein

This tiny package has all kinds of stuff. It's 4 gms, and you mix it with 3 to 6 oz water. Not much of a drink, is it?

Barley grass juice powder, Certified organic beet juice powder, (sounding even yummier, isn't it?), Organic carrot juice powder, chlorella - cracked cell, parsley juice powder, spirulina powder, watercress juice powder, acerola berry juice powder, bioflavinoids (citrus), blueberry powder, grape seed extract 92%, green tea catecins 80%, Orange juice powder, pineapple juice powder, red raspberry powder, turmeric powder, vitamin c - natural rose hips, vitamin e- (d-alpha tocopherol), dandelion, aloe vera, spearmint, apple fiber, apple pectin, flaxseed meal, rice bran powder, bamboo, cinnamon, ginkgo biloba, horsetail, lecithin powder, siberian ginsing, eleutherococcus suma, stevia, non-dairy probiotic culture, astragalus, damiana, ginger, silymarin, Nova Scotia dulse, royal jelly, plant enzymes, lipase, protease, amylase & cellulose.

Whew! All that in this teensy weensy package!

Splenda Quick Pack, for putting in your pitcher of KoolAid. 8 servings, less than 1 carb per serving. A lot better than using a cup of bulk Splenda in your pitcher, which is 24 carbs. Not too bad.

These are all the items that came in my free "low carb" sample. Most of it is useless to me. The stuff with maltitol will go directly into the trash, I wouldn't give this cr*p to anyone to suffer through intense intestinal agony. So, all in all, this free sample is pretty much worthless.

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Nita

WOW! Amazing what's considered low carb by some manufacturers. It seems like the Netrition people would know better......I take that back. If it sells, it sells, eh?

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BC
LC Since 1998
Highest Weight 172
Current 104-108

i'm trying to envision exactly what corn syrup solids are.......uhhhh....
and malitol is evil!

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Fat Baggage- Is Yours Packed?

A few years ago I got caught by the evil malitol while on holidays....two days of absolute heJJ with stomach cramps etc. You won't get that stuff past these lips ever again!

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Donna
238.5/168.2/150
I will see my goal weight again!

i learned about malitol with an exerpience i still call "the brownie incident." 3 big ol' pieces of Krustez LC Brownies and the rest of the night with lay-in-bed stomach cramps. and i can't imagine two days of that! eeek!

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Fat Baggage- Is Yours Packed?

Nita, I got about the same "sample" with my last order ... plus some pills & "pretzels" (which were icky. Yeeshh!

Thanks for the great review!

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The first time I ordered from netrition I also got the free LC samples. Most of them were pretty scary. There was even a bag of microwavable pork rinds, supposed to be like popcorn, I guess, but yuk!
I threw most of it away.

I have to admit to trying the Big Train hot chocolate, though. I ended up buying some for DH because I figured better that than the uber sugary Swiss Miss or whatever.

The only thing that would interest me would be the Emerald Balance drink mix powder. I use an antioxidant powder in my shakes and I'd like to add it to my DS's shakes but if it tastes like the one I use, he wouldn't drink it. If you try it, can you post how it tastes?