I am often asked this question. Sugar-free chocolate sounds appealing to dieters, but you are not going to lose weight eating this stuff. ‘Sugar-free’ does not mean ‘low calorie.’ Sugar-free chocolate contains almost as many calories as regular chocolate and often contains more fat. For example, 1.4 ounces of Ethel M sugar-free chocolate truffles contains 185 calories and 15 grams of fat vs. 210 calories and 12 grams of fat for Ethel M’s regular truffles. Most sugar-free chocolate is sweetened with sugar alcohols, like maltitol. Sugar alcohols are indigestible chemicals. I don’t know how these chemicals are made, but because they are indigestible, sugar alcohols frequently cause digestion problems, such as gas, constipation, and diarrhea. My chocolate is sweetened with cane sugar. I never use artificial flavors or colors, and there are no preservatives in my chocolate. I am not going to make chocolate out of indigestible chemicals. If you want sugar-free chocolates, they are easy to find in stores. They sell sugar-free chocolate at all Walgreens stores, but why would you want to buy this stuff? Common sense should tell you that eating indigestible chemicals is probably not a good idea.