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Today, the Mexican Government introduced its new chocolate bar, priced at less than $1USD. Made of 50% cocoa, powdered milk, vanilla. No refined sugar, no artificial flavourings. (files.catbox.moe)

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

She said it has 35% cane sugar, which pretty much means 35% of hydrocarbons just from that (if the sugar is refined, down to 32% if it's totally unrefined) plus about 8% of the powered milk is also hydrocarbons, so let's say it's 40g hydrocarbons per 100g of product which is very bad for diabetics.

And this is without going into the total caloric level, which must high, not only from all that sugar but also because cocoa butter is pretty caloric.

There's 100%-cocoa chocolate (or even the 90% one) and that stuff is very sour, so totally different.

This is fine for kids, because it avoids artificial ingredients, but it's not for diabetics.