Low Sugar and High Protein Cookies- They Do Exist!

What treat do you grab when you're craving something sweet?  What about the harder to come by typical "comfort" food that's actually healthy?  Well friends, good news!  Zest brands has a variety of cookies and cakes that have nutrient dense, quality ingredients that taste amazing!  Perfect for a healthy snack.

Why try them?

Nutritional Facts

• Simple, real ingredients. No chemicals. No flour or sugar.  For instance, in the almond lemon coconut cookie, the ingredients are: almonds, coconut oil, agave, coconut, lemon, vanilla and lemon extract, baking soda and salt.  Can't get much simpler than that.
• The base of their products is almonds.  These sweets are actually low in sugar, about 4 gm per cookie- who would have thought of such a thing?
• Zest foods will fit into almost any diet plan.  They are gluten free, antioxidant rich, free of trans fat, low carbohydrate, dairy, soy and corn free, high in fiber and plenty of vegan options.  That covers a lot of bases.  Note however, they do not claim to be low calorie.  One cookie contains about 300 calories.  I often will eat half or less of a cookie at a time.  Not only does this bring down the calories, but this way they last longer too!
• They taste good, and you can feel good about the ingredients that you are putting in your body.  My new favorite is the Shortbread Sandie.....yummmmmm!

Shortbread Sandie and Almond Cherry

Zest Brands are relatively new but advancing fast and furious.  They can be found in many Whole Foods locations in Colorado and some other specialty places.  They are quickly expanding so check Zest locations for where they are growing to.  You can also order online.

Flavors include:

• Lemon coconut cookie
• Ginger chocolate cookie
• Almond cherry cookie
• Shortbread sandie cookie
• Almond Lemon coffee cake
•  Almond chocolate coconut cake

Almond Cherry is vegan!

You can also make some cookies at home that don't have extra sugar or use flour.  I often make these no bake cookie balls from One Green Planet.  I use almonds instead of peanuts, but you can use any nuts you have on hand.  Along with some dark chocolate chips, add dried cherries or blueberries for some extra nutrition.