Lakanto Drinking Chocolate-10 oz

Indulge your chocolate cravings with Lakanto Gluten Free Probiotic Drinking Chocolate. Lakanto's specialty cocoa exhibits unique color and flavor characteristics that come from the world's finest cocoa beans. Their blend is sweetened to perfection with Lakanto Monk Fruit Sweetener, enhanced with natural vanilla flavors, and fortified with probiotics for a well-balanced and smooth drinking chocolate.

Lakanto Drinking Chocolate does not elevate blood sugar or insulin, making it perfect for blood sugar and weight management, and is ideal for sports enthusiasts and those looking to lose fat or weight loss or stay away from too much sugar that is not good for your health.

100% Sugar-Free - The Sweetener in Lakanto Drinking Chocolate is unmatched in sugar like sweetness.

Lifestyle Friendly - Vegan, Gluten Free, Non-GMO. We use Non-GMO Erythritol and not Xylitol that can cause gas.

Ingredients
The two natural ingredients in Lakanto are Non-GMO erythritol and the super sweet extract of the luo han guo fruit (monk fruit). This combination makes one of the best healthy natural sweetener discoveries of the century. While Lakanto will not be able to provide their exact percentage ratio, as this is a proprietary formulation, please consider the following information:

Erythritol has sweetness strength of 60-70% of sugar

Monk fruit is 250-300 time sweeter than sugar

The Monk Fruit in Lakanto, constitutes about 30-40% of the sweetness

Erythritol is a sugar alcohol naturally found in grapes, pears, mushrooms, soy sauce, cheese, wine and beer, so it and has been part of the human diet for thousands of years. You may be familiar with other sugar alcohols like xylitol, sorbitol, and maltitol used in sugar-free candies and chewing gum. But erythritol is different and much better than these other sugar alcohols because it is fermented. Many people have trouble with foods sweetened with sugar alcohols. Diarrhea, gas, and bloating are common side effects of other sugar alcohols. But Lakanto does not cause diarrhea, gas and bloating because Lakanto sweetener is made by fermentation while the other sugar alcohols are made from hydrogenation.

The Erythritol in Lakanto is:

Specially fermented from non-GMO corn that is safe for consumption

Naturally low calorie because your body excretes about 90% of it

The remaining 10% turns into harmless gases and short chains fatty acids in your large intestine. Don't worry, Lakanto will NOT cause embarrassing flatulence

Erythritol Safety

The erythritol used in our Lakanto Monkfruit Sweeteners is derived from Non-GMO corn and has the status of "Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) from the FDA and is widely used in many other countries. After much toxicology and clinical studies, erythritol has been found to be safe for consumption as a sugar substitute, even when consumed on a daily basis and in high amounts.

Erythritol is sweet, but when used alone in a product does not taste like sugar. Only when it was combined with the sweet-tasting and medicinal fruit luo han guo - in a unique patented process - we were ?able to create an amazing replica of sugar. The exotic luo han guo fruit grows high in the Chinese mountains, in the Guangxi province.

The Chinese have been using luo han guo fruit as a sweetener and natural remedy for years. They dry the fruit, which has a sweet toffee or caramel-like flavor, and use it in teas to ease fever, coughing and phlegm. They even use the tea for digestive troubles. In fact, the Chinese call luo han guo the "longevity fruit," because the people who live where it is cultivated often reach the ripe old age of 100!

Scientists have studied luo han guo and its health benefits extensively, and they've found that this rare fruit has amazing health properties:

Anti-carcinogenic

Regulate blood sugar

Able to prevent and decrease oxidative stress related to diabetes

Prevent tooth decay

Anti-inflammatory

Inhibit tumor growth

Antioxidant

Antihistaminic

The luo han guo fruit is naturally sweet. In fact, the special extract is 300 times sweeter than sucrose! Because luo han guo extract is sweet without affecting blood sugar, it is perfect for a healthy sugar substitute. Luo han guo extract in Lakanto has:

Zero calories
Your body does not break down the unique chemical components of the fruit like other simple sugars and carbohydrates

Zero glycemic index
Because your body metabolizes luo han guo differently, your blood glucose and insulin levels do not rise like they do with other sugars

Zero additives
Lakanto is made of the natural extract of the luo han guo fruit and erythritol.