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| February 01, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Product: Hershey's sugar-free candies

Hershey's has new candies for people who have a sweet tooth but want to avoid sugar. We tasted three--bite-sized bars in milk and dark chocolate and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups Miniatures--to see how much they resemble the with-sugar originals.

The sugar-free dark chocolate came closest. It has a fairly smooth texture and the bittersweet character that dark-chocolate lovers seek. By contrast, the peanut butter cups were not as peanutty or chocolatey as the originals. The sugar-free milk chocolate was somewhere in the middle: OK, but nothing exceptional.

Taste aside, the absence of sugar is about all these candies have in their favor. Consider:

* Their sugar substitutes, lactitol and sucralose, ...

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