LITTLE ROCK — The folks at Smucker’s have some flavorful options for people watching their sugar intake. First is a line of preserves containing 50 percent less sugar and calories than most regular preserves. The preserves are available in Concord grape, orange marmalade, raspberry, strawberry and apricot flavors, and a 15.5-ounce jar sells for about $3.50.
They also have a line of Sugar Free Preserves and Jams sweetened with Splenda and Nutrasweet. The flavors are cherry, apricot, boysenberry, seedless blackberry, blueberry, peach, seedless strawberry, orange marmalade and Concord grape, which cost about $3.40 for a 12.75-ounce jar.
For more sweet options without the calories of traditionally sweetened foods,Clemmy’s makes sugar-free ice cream and novelties. The company was created by a Californian named Jon Gordon, whose sugar allergy led him to create the brand, which is named after his cat, Clemmy. The products are sweetened with xylitol, a sugar alcohol that can create digestive problems for some people if eaten in large quantities.
The ice cream flavors are coffee, toasted almond, butter pecan, chocolate chip and vanilla, and are sold in quart and pint sizes. Their novelty line consists of round chocolate-covered ice cream treats in small and large sizes.
They’re not sold in area stores, but you can purchase Clemmy’s products online at Clemmysicecream.com and Icecreamsource.com.
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Food, Pages 37 on 09/29/2010