Low Calorie Cake Slices – Tried and Tasted
The team were (again!) eager to get their teeth into something a little tempting - and cake slices seemed like the perfect treat. With so many brands offering low calorie alternatives we thought it could be time to have your cake and eat it too!
| Product | Carrot Cake Slices, Be Good to Yourself, Sainsbury's* | Chocolate Flavour Cake Slices, Eat Smart, Safeway* | Carrot & Orange Cake Slices, Healthy Eating, Tesco* |
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| Ranking | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Taste/ Texture | Delightfully moist carrot slices with a light consistency. The panel particularly liked the yogurt flavoured icing, and felt it complimented the carrot sponge. Unlike most of the other slices tasted these were not artificially sweet and would make a lovely treat. (They're, surprisingly, the lowest in fat and calories per slice!) | If you're more of a chocolate-type, these are the best by far… Imagine chocolate fudge sponge topped with a gooey chocolatey icing and white chocolate flakes - and these are just that! Not only did they appear the most appetizing of the chocolate slices, they also tasted the most appetizing. Try them! | A nice carrot (and orange) sponge, overpowered a little by the icing – which was deemed by the majority to be too sweet. |
| Calories (kcal) per slice | 64 | 95 | 80 |
| Fat (g) per slice | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
| Product | Chocolate Dream Cake Bars, Go Ahead, McVities* | Low Fat Chocolate & Orange Slices, Lite & Low* | Chocolate and Orange Slices, Good for You, Asda* |
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| Ranking | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| Taste/ Texture | Appetizing looking cake bars, which come individually wrapped (ideal for popping in your pack up / bag). The chocolate sponge had a pleasant vanilla cream centre, but was spoilt by an artificial tasting chocolate coating. Note: These are also significantly higher in fat and calories than any of the others. | Chocolate sponge slices with a squidgy (orange) layer in the centre and a chocolate icing topping. They were far too sweet for our panel - like eating a "mouthful of sugar", not at all chocolatey. Strongly disliked. | Extremely similar to the Lite & Low slice. The panel again disliked these because they were far too sugary. Not recommended. |
| Calories (kcal) per slice | 142 | 89 | 83 |
| Fat (g) per slice | 4.8 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
The panel singled out Be Good to Yourself's Carrot Slices and Eat Smart's Chocolate Flavour slices as undoubtedly better than the other brands. If you're looking for something low calorie and cake-like, and value taste and substance, these two are the ones to try.
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