Healthier Sweet Options in Japan

While in general sweets tend to be unhealthy, a healthy diet can contain a moderate amount of sweets. Japan offers a great variety of sweets and recently some healthier versions with reduced sugar or reduced carb content have shown up. I would like to introduce a few I tried recently. 

Sunao biscuits

The Sunao brand from Glico offers biscuits with a reduced carb content. I recently tried the cream sand biscuits of these series. They come in two different flavours; lemon-vanilla and almond-vanilla.

They come in a package of 6 separately wrapped biscuits. One has 65 calories. The taste was alright, and I don’t think that they taste any different than similar non-low-carb biscuits from other makers.

Sunao products are available in most supermarkets. They also have low-carb ice-cream.

Chateraise low-carb sweets

This Japanese sweet shop has a whole collection of low-carb sweets. They offer different cakes, chocolate, dorayaki, caramel nuts pudding and different types of ice-cream.

I recently tried some of their ice-cream and cheesecake.

The ice-cream only has about 80 calories per cup which is quite low compared to regular ice-cream. The taste was alright, but the texture is a little different to regular ice-cream.

The cheesecake has 162 calories per piece, which is also quite low compared to regular cheesecake but the slice is not very big. The taste was not much different from a regular cheesecake taken into consideration that it is a deep-frozen product.

Chateraise sweets can be bought in the Chateraise shops that have locations all over Japan and also from their online shop. As the low-carb sweets are all deep-frozen they last pretty long.

Low-sugar cookies from Gupita

Gupita offers different cookie variants with reduced sugar content. The cookies are filled with some sort of cream and come in boxes of 3 pieces. One piece has 56 calories. I don’t really anything to compare them to, as I hadn’t eaten anything similar before.

The cookies come in different tastes: blueberry cheesecake, crème Brule, and chocolate banana cake. They have an interesting taste that is hard to describe. I think you should just try them once to see whether you like them. They are available in a lot of supermarkets and drug stores.

These cookies have the added benefit that they come with high fibre content.

If you want to try any of these make sure to not eat too much as the artificial sweeteners used in low-carb sweets can have a bad impact on your tummy.

Have you tried any of these sweets? Did you like them or do you prefer sweets with sugar?