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...dulce de leche, the sweetened milk cooked down to a caramel that is a staple of Latin American desserts. Overton had considered it for a cheesecake flavor for years, but he waited for a cue--Häagen Dazs' introducing dulce de leche ice cream--before trying the bittersweet, burned-sugar taste on his customers in 2002. It now ranks as the chain's fifth most popular of 40 cheesecakes...
...scene could have passed for a paid advertisement: a barista at a New York City coffee bar informed a customer that the café had run out of Splenda, the sugar substitute in the bright yellow packets. To the customer, it was tantamount to betrayal. "Are you very sure?" he asked, offering to settle for Equal or Sweet'n Low. But all that was left was sugar. The man shook his head (sugar!), pushed his cup back across the counter and demanded a refund...
...sentiment echoed by millions of Americans who are fanatical about getting their sweets--just as long as the sweets come sugar-free. By 2004, 180 million Americans were buying sugar-free products, according to a national survey by the Calorie Control Council, up from 109 million in 1991. A 2005 report by ACNielsen found that while the low-carb craze was fading, low-sugar packaged items represented the second-fastest-growing segment (behind organics) in the good-for-you product industry...
...another look at, nutritionists say. Lanou recently examined the nutritional content of various chocolate milk cartons side by side with popular colas. "I don't think parents realize that when they offer up sweetened chocolate milk, they're generally giving their children ounce for ounce the same amount of sugar as sodas do," she says. A container of Hershey's Vanilla Cream Milkshake, for instance, has 560 calories and 77 grams of sugar. "If you're going to drink milk, choose a lower-fat version," Lanou says. "And consider water or a healthy juice instead...
...though they may sound nutritious or may be billed as "organic," salty, fried veggie chips, for instance, are often more tasty than healthy. And health-watchers steer away from sweetened, packaged "fruit" products- such as fried banana chips- which can be high in saturated fat and contain far more sugar than the fruit they're derived from. "They're not far away from regular candy," says Tim Radak, a nutritionist and program manager at the Northern California Cancer Center. "They may throw in fruit juice and call them fruit snacks, but they're quite far from a real piece...