Glucoholic - Sugar Free Snacks

The first thing one notices about Boylan’s Diet Root Beer is the classic brown glass bottle. Raised letters and painted logos serve to remind the consumer that Boylan has been around for a while. Vintage bottles like these always add something to the experience of enjoying a root beer.

In the taste category we give Boylan a high score for its authentic root beer taste. We here at Glucoholic have always believed that root beer should have a little bite, not taste like an overly sweetened children’s cough syrup. This root beer has a sharp taste and is perfectly sweetened with sucralose. The first few sips almost hint of a slight aftertaste, like the mixture of sucralose is a little lean. By the end of the bottle it seems more like one of the other ingredients lingers to give that initial sensation. A pleasant surprise was that this eventually became one of the longest lingering root beer flavors of any root beer we’ve reviewed. We would say that it is certainly competitive with Stewart’s Diet Root Beer.

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Some time ago we reviewed Splenda Raspberry Flavor Accents. We’ve been looking forward to trying out the lemon flavor, and we were not disappointed. The lemon flavor tubes are identical in packaging and nutrition to the raspberry flavor accents. As such, we highly recommend these flavor accents for dressing up your teas or waters without adding any carbohydrates.

Like the raspberry flavor, we found that the lemon needs to be mixed at about 150 percent of the suggested amount for maximum sweetness and flavor. Some lemon drink mixes are bitter and sour, but these flavor accents are quite mild and pleasant.

Splenda Raspberry Flavor Accents are a great way to add a little something extra to that glass of water, tea, or any other beverage. They come in small tube-like packets that fit nicely in your pocket or purse and provide a raspberry flavored sweetness to any drink. There are several products like this on the market now, but given our affinity for all things Splenda, we thought we’d try out Splenda’s first. Like plain Splenda, each packet has no nutritional value, but provides a sweetness that’s hard to beat.

Our testing showed that if you like your beverages really sweet and flavorful you should use about 150 percent of the suggested amount. Using the recommended amount seemed to leave us wanting just a little more sweetness and flavor. We can’t wait to try Splenda’s Lemon Flavor Accents as well. We’re pretty sure these will be great too!

Crystal Light has been a staple for dieters for years. Kraft Foods, the owners of this esteemed brand, have done two things to provide consumers with good options when considering a flavored water beverage purchase. First, they’ve started producing bottled beverages. Second, they’ve used Splenda to sweeten these bottled beverages. These two developments address two of the most commonly heard complaints about Crystal Light products - having to mix the powdered drink mixes and aspartame as the sweetener.

We put three of the Crystal Light bottled flavors to the test for this review - Classic Orange, Lemonade, and Raspberry Ice. The products were judged based on taste alone, as each of the flavors have practically the same nutritional information; save one flavor, which we’ll get to in a bit. Each bottle contains 16 ounces, which provides two servings. Each serving contains no caffeine, 5 calories, 10mg of sodium, and 0 grams of anything else of any importance. All three are sweetened with Splenda and acesulfame potassium.

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What a treasure! The Glucoholic was strolling through a Cracker Barrel Old Country Store recently and came across a few bottles of Sioux City Diet Sarsaparilla. Always looking to try out a new diabetic friendly soda, he picked up a bottle. And what a bottle it is - beautiful amber glass with raised “Sioux City” lettering on the shoulder and a graphic of a real life rootin’ tootin’ cowboy coming out of a saloon. It’s impossible to tell if he’s in Iowa or South Dakota, but that doesn’t really matter because the bottle does tell you that you’re looking at “The Granddaddy Of All Root Beers.” Little did The Glucoholic know that trying to find another bottle of Sioux City Diet Sarsaparilla would become “The Granddaddy Of All Mysteries.”

Heading to the oracle of all obscure information, the Internets, we found little information about this soda. Sioux City sodas are distributed by White Rock Products Corp. of Whitestone NY, and lots of information about their traditional products like root beer, ginger beer, and cream soda is available. White Rock’s website does not even mention the diet version of their sarsaparilla. This strikes fear in The Glucoholic’s heart because of one simple fact. This sarsaparilla tastes awesome! The fear that this product is no longer available is almost too much to bear. The slight vanilla hint and the sweetness and lack of bitterness provided by White Rock’s wise choice to use Splenda makes this one of the best diet sodas we’ve ever tasted.

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