Yea, I am so happy that I found the Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwich with no added sugar! You probably remember my recent rant about the high fructose corn syrup that is in the regular sandwiches, so I was thrilled when I saw these. Good news is that they taste just as good as the regular ones. The exchanges are 1 carb and 1 sugar (for the naturally occurring sugars). Now I am back to having my one Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwich per week!

It has been while since I have had any ice cream of any kind, and at least a year since I have had the Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches. So, I was super excited when I bought a “tube” of them and counted on having one per week for the next 6 weeks…ohhhh, heaven, treats, treats, treats!

Oprah loves Skinny Cow, they are recommended by Bob Greene’s Best Life campaign, they are low in calories, and they taste soooo good. So, certainly something that is there to help us lose weight and get healthy is overall pretty good for us, right?

NOT! This time, even I got fooled. As a habitual nutrition label-checker, I don’t know why I didn’t look this time. Maybe I didn’t want to know and subconsciously I wanted them so bad, I just was going to blindly go by Oprah and her trainer’s recommendation. So, I didn’t think about and I didn’t check the ingredients. AFTER I ate one, I decided to give it a glance and surely see all the wholesome goodness I had just proudly consumed. Here is what I found:

Ingredients: Vanilla Sandwich [skim milk, wafer (bleached wheat flour, sugar, caramel color, dextrose, palm oil, corn flour, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, baking soda, modified corn starch, salt, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin, cocoa), sugar, corn syrup, polydextrose, whey protein, cream, calcium carbonate, Inulin (Dietary Fiber), natural flavor, Propylene Glycol Monostearate, microcrystalline cellulose, Sodium Carboxymethylcellulose, guar gum, monoglycerides, sorbitol, carob bean gum, citric acid, vitamin A palmitate, carrageenan, salt]

WHAT??? Really? I know there is sugar in there, obviously. They taste too good to not have sugar, but is High Fructose Corn Syrup necessary? And why do they have to add regular corn syrup to it on top of that? Is the high fructose not “fructose-y” enough?

I eat sugar, in limited amounts, but I just can’t bring myself to do the HFCS anymore. Please, Skinny Cow, use some good, organic, natural sugar and not a ton of it. How about just the naturally occurring sugars that are in the skim milk? Until then….

I am sure Oprah is not thrilled about this after having the Food Inc author on her show and the discussion they had about the dangers of High Fructose Corn Syrup.

So, no more of The Skinny Cow Ice Cream Sandwiches for me, and maybe no more for Oprah. Another one bites the dust. Any replacement ideas folks?