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Ice-creams are what make your summers better and bearable. Well if you are die-hard ice cream lover, the weather is neither an excuse nor a limitation. But what if you are an ice cream lover and a fitness freak at the same time.

Sugar-free ice cream is what strikes your mind, right?

Here’s something to shatter your blind faith on the sugar-free ice cream.

CALORIES: The delicious sugar-free ice creams are not always calorie-free. A single scoop of this ice cream has just 25 per cent calories less than the calorie count of a normal ice cream. Referring to a fact, people tend to eat more, when they read something like ‘Sugar-free’ on a food packet. Hence consume more calories than normal.

SUGAR SUBSTITUTES USED: Sugar alcohols are one of the common components of sugar-free ice cream used to sweeten it. Sugar alcohol contains a considerable amount of carbohydrates, which may prove dangerous to patients of diabetes.according to a fact, eating sugar-free food increases the blood glucose level in the patients with diabetes.

sugar alcohols in excess amount cause bloating and diarrhoea.sugar alcohols also occur naturally in fruits, well they do not really sweet, hence the manufacturers add more of them in their products such as ice cream to make it taste sweet. Sugar alcohol eventually leads to obesity.

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