Hi everyone, I'm recent to the Atkins diet, but it seems to be working reasonably well.

I have been reading quite a bit and understand from the Atkins site that the suger-alcohols such as maltitol etc can be ignored. My question is, are there other reasons besides the "net carb" count to be cautious with eating foods that contain these nutrients.

An example is:

I found a diabetic chocolate bar that had 5.65 g of carbs per 10g of bar and also had 5.65 g of maltitol. Those were the only carbs other than splenda. When you multiplied the sucralose amount to include the whole bar it amounted to slightly above 12mg (the same amount contained in a single package of splenda)

So my calculations would say that this bar has only the sucralose to count, and since Atkins suggests 1 g of carbs per splenda package, then it looks like this bar would have only one carb.

It seems a little too good to be true, and when that happens, I get a little concerned that I have misinterpretted something. Can anyone out there shed some more light on this for me.

Thanks.

Tim