Sweets for diabetics

[Luigitoo]

I am looking for a shop or website that sells sweets for diabetics that are sugar and carbohydrate free. Not chocolates please, I need hard/boiled sweets, sticks of rock, lollipops etc

[WendyW]

There seem to be quite a few and I'm not sure which is the best site so try http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q
=Diabetic+sweets+UK&btnG=Google+Search Good Luck.

[woodpam]

Boots do a range and so do most health food shops. You can always ask the pharmacist in your local chemist too as they often stock a range. Hope you find what you are looking for.

[Tizzy]

'ello ... For my A-level Food Science i had to research into the diet of a diabetic. One thing i did find out through the diabetic association and Boots is that they withdrew their line of diabetic foods as it was discovered that there was little difference in sugar content between that and normal confectionary and that it raised the blood glucose levels as much as normal confectionary. However like a broken record they still say that u can eat normal confectionary as long as its monitored. I also Intereviewed the Chair of leading confectionary shop and when asked why they continue to sell a diabetic range even after what the Diabetic Association withdrew their own brand they replied that it was merely there to satisfy the consumer ... which is fair enough. Try these links http://www.diabetes.org.uk/faq/diabeticfood.htm (the top question) and http://www.iddtinternational.org/weightanddiet.htm
l (scroll half way down under 'withdrawl of diabetic food')

[wezers]

our sweet shop stocks a good range of hard boiled sugar free sweets, made from malitol. Things like cough candy, dandelion and burdock, pear drops

http://www.treasureis...atalog/Free_From.html