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Fatties, take note: the Z-Carb, made by boutique chocolatier HVC Lizard Chocolate in Norwalk, Conn., is part of the bulging cornucopia of ersatz sweets that is helping change the way millions of Americans snack. Catering to adherents of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, foodmakers are filling out the $40 billion diet industry with alternative versions of their favorite sins, from marshmallows and margarita mix to biscotti and beer. And thanks to increasingly successful formulations of sugar substitutes, many members of this new generation of munchie killers are downright delicious. "They've come to my rescue," says Dallas...
...private health-food companies, which have been introducing Atkins-friendly prepackaged foods at a rate of almost three new products a day since January, according to Productscan, a marketing-intelligence firm in Naples, N.Y. Also tasting opportunity are food-and-beverage heavyweights like Anheuser-Busch, which launched a low-carb version of Michelob beer, and boxed-chocolate maker Russell Stover, which put out a line of low-carb candies. Says Gerry Morrison, president of Carbolite Foods in Evansville, Ind.: "This trend has expanded from die-hard low-carbers to a general population that is becoming much more carb-conscious." Indeed...
Small entrepreneurs like Carbolite were among the first to profit from the Atkins revival. The private company, which started in 1993 with Morrison and a friend peddling low-fat foods from the back of a pickup truck, switched to low carb five years ago. Carbolite chocolate bars were introduced in 2000 and became a best seller in drugstores. Revenues at the firm, which has 15 employees, reached $45 million last year and are expected to top $70 million this year, Morrison says...
Ironically, the company Atkins himself founded to commercialize his dietary theories nearly missed the low-carb bonanza. Atkins Nutritionals, based in Ronkonkoma, N.Y., was selling mostly diet books and vitamins until 2000, when the success of the Carbolite candy persuaded executives to create more prepackaged foods. The company hired marketing veteran Paul Wolff as CEO, and since then it has launched nearly 100 low-carb products, from sliced bread to soy-based snack chips to a superpremium ice cream sold under Atkins' Endulge brand. Wolff says the "aggressive" pace of product rollouts will continue. "We're out to change...
Chemists believe they have solved the laxative problem with a new sugar alcohol called erythritol. It's already in use in the Z-Carb bar as well as in Carbolite's new At Last! bars. But obstacles to further industry growth remain. For one thing, there's uncertainty about which products can legitimately be labeled as "low" or "lite" in carbohydrate content. The industry claims fiber and sugar alcohols that don't affect insulin levels shouldn't be counted as regular carbohydrates. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says a carb is a carb and has sent letters chastising...