Kroger Deluxe Churned No Sugar Added Ice Cream

When your in the mood for ice cream and nothing else will do, here is a good choice for the health conscious.

Kroger Brand - Deluxe Churned No Sugar Added Vividly Vanilla
Serving size 1/2 cup (64 g) - Servings per container 12.
100 Calories
3g Fat (2g Saturated)
15g Carbs (1g dietary fiber, 5g sugar, 5g sugar alcohol)

This ice cream has a really good strong vanilla taste with not much, if any, after taste from the artificial sweeteners. According to the label it is sweetened with sucralose (Splenda).

On top of being reduced sugar this ice cream also happens to be lowfat. According to the label Regular Deluxe Churned Vividly Vanilla contains 7g of fat compared to this products 3g of fat. There is also a "Light" version of this ice cream that reduces the fat further to 2.5g, but is not reduced sugar.

Calories

Before we get into recommending food products and counting calories, a quick refresher course on calories. Calories are a measure of heat energy and they are used to quantify both the amount of energy found in a food and the amount of energy our bodies burn doing activities.

Carbohydrates (both starches and sugars) contain 4 calories/gram.
Proteins also contain 4 calories/gram.
Fat contains 9 calories/gram. Fat is a very dense energy source, which is why our bodies store energy as fat. If you don't burn it off it stays stored.
Alcohol (ethanol) contains 7 calories/gram.
Fiber, which is carbohydrates that are not digestible by the body, do not contribute to calorie counts.

The combination of Carbs, Fats and Proteins will add up to the total calorie count for a food product.

Welcome

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