Are Cotton Candy Grapes Keto Friendly?

I mean, you’re eating all the healthiness of a grape, yet it tastes like circus candy. Except that now we’re discovering that isn’t entirely true — as it turns out, cotton candy grapes are way less healthy than the normal green ones. Don’t start crying over the crop just yet.

Stevita Naturals Hard Candy These keto-friendly hard candies are free of gluten, artificial flavors, and allergens. They come in four flavors — cherry, grape, orange, and strawberry. They’re naturally sweetened with stevia and isomalt, a sugar alcohol derived from sugar cane.

While a typical cup of grapes contains around 62 calories and 15 grams of natural sugar, a cup of cotton candy grapes has approximately 100 calories and 28 grams of sugar. That’s almost twice as much sugar — which makes sense, considering there’s almost twice as much sweet flavor.

Grapery, the company behind cotton the candy grape, has been growing grapes since 1996 in the Kern and Tulare counties of California. By using cross-breeding techniques, Grapery was able to combine the flavors of the Concord grape with the common grape vine to create a completely new type of grape with a totally unique flavor.

What is a Keto or Low-Carb Diet?

Keto and/or low-carb diets are weight loss strategies that control insulin levels and encourage fat loss. The goal of a low carb diet is to limit carbohydrates that are high in sugar and eat foods high in fat and protein instead. By doing this, you will start to burn fat for fuel, rather than sugar.

Grapes are not particularly keto-friendly. One cup of grapes contains approximately 27.3g total carbs, or 25.8g net carbs, after fiber is subtracted. Even just eating a handful of grapes can put you over your limits for the day.

The number of carbs in grapes can vary depending on the variety, but most of the table grapes that we find in the store are Thompson seedless grapes (green) or Flame or Ruby seedless grapes (red), and they have about the same composition.

A lot of whether you can fit grapes into your diet as a snack depends on how many you plan to eat. A typical serving size of grapes is 1/2 cup, or about 16 grapes.

If you’re looking for a keto-friendly alternative to grapes, there might be a few good choices, depending on what you’re looking for.

Weight loss: The keto diet is a great way to lose weight. In ketosis, your body burns stored fat for energy instead of glucose. The process leads to rapid weight loss without having to starve yourself.