Halls Oxygen – Sugar Free?

I’ve been fighting a cold for the last week and it is driving me nuts. I’m actually really lucky in that I’m hardly ever sick, only the occasional cold a couple of times a year. I’ve never been hospitalized. I’ve never had surgery. My mom always used to say that it was because I was breastfed for almost 2 years. (Probably a little TMI but whatever, it’s my blog and I can post what I want :-) ) Who knows if that’s true? I know there’s a lot of research and other hoopla regarding the benefits of breastfeeding and don’t get me wrong, I’m a HUGE believer in it. And in the Diabetic community, there is also a lot of info on how breastfeeding reduces the chance of your child having T1 Diabetes. Yet here I stand, a breast fed child that developed diabetes. But I’m digressing.....

I originally started this post wanting to talk about an experience I had while I’ve been sick with this stupid cold. I went to the pharmacy to pick up some wonderful cold medicine. I’m a compulsive shopper so of course I had to get cough syrup, daytime tablets, night-time tablets, and cough drops. Being a diabetic, the first thing that I looked for was medicine that had the lowest possible sugar content on it. I normally go for Ricola Lemon Herb mainly because I love the taste, but today I saw something new. Oxygen from Halls claiming to be sugar free. I turned it around and low and behold...I saw nutritional information with 3g of carbs per one piece. I looked at the Sugar info and yes, there was 0g. Further down I saw Sugar Alcohols and realized that that’s where the carbs were coming from. How can something be sugar free and yet have carbs? Just doesn’t make sense to me.