Slim-Fast provides a diet plan based on its products, but if you prefer, you can also use Slim-Fast bars or shakes as part of your own diet plan. Slim-Fast makes snack bars, high-protein and high-fiber meal replacement bars, shake mixes and shakes. Lower-carb shakes come in 12-ounce ready-to-drink cans, and flavors are creamy chocolate and vanilla cream. Before trying these shakes, read their list of ingredients to be sure you know what you are drinking.
Protein, Fat and Carbohydrates
Each flavor of Slim-Fast lower-carb shakes provides 20 grams protein, and milk-derived sources include high-quality proteins from calcium caseinate and milk protein concentrate. The shakes have 9 g total fat, with 3 g saturated fat, and the primary source is canola oil, which is high in monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Of the 4 to 6 g total carbohydrates, 1 to 2 g are of dietary fiber from cellulose gel, cellulose gum, carrageenan and guar gum.
Vitamins
The creamy chocolate and vanilla cream Slim-Fast lower-carb shakes have the same amount of vitamins added to them. They provide 100 percent of the daily value for vitamin E, from vitamin E acetate, and 100 percent for vitamin C, from sodium ascorbate. They have 35 percent of the daily value for vitamin D, from cholecalciferol, or vitamin D3, which is the active form in your body, according to the Linus Pauling Institute Micronutrient Information Center. The shakes have other vitamins, from vitamin A palmitate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, riboflavin, thiamin mononitrate, phylloquinone, cyanocobalamin, niacinamide and calcium pantothenate.
Minerals
Salt is an ingredient in the shakes, which provide 220 to 260 milligrams sodium each. Both flavors have the same amount of other added minerals. They have 40 percent of the daily value for calcium, including from calcium phosphate, and 15 percent of the daily value for iron, which comes from ferric orthophosphate. Other ingredients in the shakes that provide essential minerals are zinc gluconate, potassium iodide, magnesium phosphate, chromium chloride and manganese sulfate.
Other Ingredients
Slim-Fast lower-carb creamy chocolate and vanilla cream shakes have artificial flavors. The chocolate version has cocoa, processed with alkali, and coloring ingredients in the vanilla flavor include Yellow 5 and Yellow 6. The shakes have no added sugars to sweeten them. Instead, both of the shakes have sucralose, an artificial sweetener that is non-nutritive, so it does not provide carbohydrates or calories. If you are allergic to milk or soy, do not drink these shakes.
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