Health and Fitness

Does sugar free mean low in calories?

Foods that are prepared with sugar substitutes rather than processed sugar tend to contain about two-third's the calories of those prepared with the real sugar. Generally, there is a big difference in the texture, the taste, and the quality of most foods prepared with sugar substitutes.
If you discover a sweet treat prepared with the sugar substitute that you really like, that's wonderful! If not, enjoy the goody prepared with processed sugar and limit your total consumption.
A cookie certainly isn't going to destroy your diet. On the other hand, a tough, untasty cookie lump is going to leave you totally unsatisfied which may mean trotting back to the cookie jar and grabbing not one, but a handful of good-tasting cookies. See, we just saved over 300 calories in this one little sentence!
But take note: Just because a goody doesn't contain processed sugar, doesn't always mean that it's necessarily lower in calories.
Good example: A stick of sugarfree gum contains the same number of calories as gum made with processed sugar.