Fairly sure this is an ATL! At least for this year.
Pair with a cup of half price almond milk for a 50 calorie treat.
Avalanche Drinking Chocolate 200g $3 @ Coles
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Not bad for the price, drink too much and it'll have a laxative effect
an avalanche effect, you could say
The sachets were better than the one in the tin IMO
They're also a lot more calories. Each serve of the tinned stuff is legitimately like 30kJ. It's insane. This stuff is incredible if you are cutting and want to keep the hunger at bay for a little bit.
The sachets taste good on their own without milk, the tinned stuff needs milk to taste decent. So in terms of calories and taste the sachets win for me
@Rain Cloud: shrugs I drink the tinned stuff fine without milk. The sachets are 15% more expensive a serve and 4.7x the calories. I won't argue they don't taste better, of course they do. Just not worth the trade off for me.
bought 2 of these from woolies for $4.80 just yesterday. Turning in my OzB license.
Ingredients
Erythritol , Cocoa (Soy Lecithin), Natural Flavour, Stevia Extract, Salt.
eugh..
There's always a taste compromise price for sugar free. Stevia.
The ingredients list is actually not bad. All natural. I would have preferred monk fruit vs the stevia but otherwise, looks alright to me.
Contains Erythritol
linked to blood clots and risk of heart disease, study finds
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/08/health/erythritol-blood-c…
I wasn't given much of a choice!
Vaccines save lives though, Avalanche Drinking Chocolate doesn't…
@easternculture: ok but what about the Erythirol though, I don't think the chocolate milk powder is vaccinated against covid.
@easternculture: You know that degree from TikTok University isn't worth the video that it's played on, right?
I tried Jarrah Hot Chocolate in the past but found out it uses Aspartame as the sweetener which is worse than Erythritol apparently… seems Erythritol is considered safe/fine in small qty's (which is what it will be).. So this might be better than others with Erythritol and Stevia being considered some of the better sweeteners from what I've read so far… keen to know if there is better options though…
I found Jarrah hot chocolate taste really nice. Just check that sweetener 951 is aspartame … The ingredients can be read from its photo in Coles app for example.
linked to blood clots and risk of heart disease, study finds.
Pop half of one of these with each hot chocolate you have and your still 55c in front.
better off shelving it….🤣
That article is a yo-yo, contradicts itself:
"In response to the study, the Calorie Control Council, an industry association, told CNN that 30 years of science has shown erythritol to be a “proven safe and effective choice” for sugar and calorie reduction.
“Consumers should interpret the results of this pilot with extreme caution. The limited number of participants, a total of 10, were given an excessive amount of erythritol, nearly quadruple the maximum amount approved in any single beverage in the United States,” the council’s president, Carla Saunders, said in an email.
However, the amount of erythritol used in each drink in the study — 30 grams — was the equivalent of what is included in typical sugar-free sodas, ice creams or muffins, of which people often eat more than one, Hazen said.
“This research raises some concerns that a standard serving of an erythritol-sweetened food or beverage may acutely stimulate a direct clot-forming effect,” said study coauthor Dr. Wai Hong Wilson Tang, research director for heart failure and cardiac transplantation at the Cleveland Clinic, in a statement."
The author of the article seems to have struggled to understand the article. Essentially the big question is whether typical use of a substance leads directly to an outcome you care about, in this instance heart disease and stroke. That isn't what this study was about, they only looked at a particular aspect of platelet function and found that people exposed to erythritol were more sensitive to clotting signals. It doesn't necessarily follow on that exposure to erythritol increases the chance of strokes and heart disease, there are a lot of backup mechanisms in the body for instance, and many things aren't that simple.
Essentially you care about does A cause B, but you're instead finding that A causes C (because it's easier to analyse), and C might sometimes leads to B.
The authors previously found an association for heart disease and exposure to sugar alcohols, but it's hard to know the significance of this since previous studies haven't found this association. There are also significant confounding issues, since of course overweight people are more likely to consume sugar free products, and more likely to also have strokes and cardiovascular outcomes. For what it's worth, the fda has said it's not enough to push them from the "generally regarded as safe" category, which is their highest category of safety.
Anyone tried this? any good?