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Healthy Snack Cakes Without Compromise

by David A. Musso

Healthy Snack Cakes Without Compromise
Sweet Abandon provides THE all natural alternative to the treats
we've known since childhood


(Los Angeles, CA) Let them eat cake! Benchmark Foods, LLC is seeing to it that consumers of their Sweet Abandon Personal Cakes can have their cake and eat it too -- without compromising taste or health. Given America's diabetic epidemic and with obesity on the rise in both adults and children, all of us are finding it difficult to satisfy our cravings for tasty and satisfying treats while adhering to diet restrictions. Even the strongest of wills has difficulty turning away from the taunting high fat, high calorie snack cakes and baked goods found around every corner. To combat this, many of us have resorted to short-lived low carb diets that replace unwanted carbohydrates with artificial sweeteners and unhealthy fats. However, with the recent debut of Sweet Abandon Personal Cakes, maintaining a healthy lifestyle and a happy tummy is a piece of cake!

Recognizing a need for healthier indulgences, the people behind Sweet Abandon have created four moist and flavorful single-serve cakes whose appeal is as wide as their nutritional benefits. Not only can 18 million diabetics, natural food enthusiasts and carb conscious Americans enjoy life with sweet abandon, the rest of us can too. These cakes are for everyone and are perfect as breakfast muffins, mid-day snacks, party tray foods, picnic treats or as plated and dressed up desserts to end any meal.




Available in Banana Pecan, Carrot Walnut, Lemon Poppyseed and the ever-popular Chocolate, Sweet Abandon Personal Cakes contain only fresh, wholesome ingredients. It seems like an oxymoron for a snack cake but it's true. At last, all-natural snack cakes that are as moist and rich as the real thing because they are the real thing -- a precedent not typically imitated by competing brands since fresh ingredients are more expensive. Premium, bakery-quality taste without sacrifice in a convenient package is the name of the game.

As mentioned, Sweet Abandon is unique because no artificial sweeteners, colors, flavors or preservatives are used. Unlike most traditional snack cakes and low carb baked goods that either use refined white sugar or chemical sweeteners, Sweet Abandon only uses naturally derived crystalline fructose. Chemically laden or heavily processed and refined sweeteners such as high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) which is readily found in a multitude of products on grocers' shelves, have an immediate effect on blood sugar levels in the body. However, the crystalline fructose used in Sweet Abandon Personal Cakes is a low glycemic sweetener which not only makes it diabetic friendly but also better for all of us.

And for the calorie counters out there, only 30% of a 150-calorie cake are from fat, just enough to retain the high levels of flavor and moistness we all find so satisfying. Better still, each 2-ounce Personal Cake contains no hydrogenated oils and no trans fat. As for the "icing" on our proverbial cake? One Personal Cake packs more protein than 2 ounces of lean turkey and less carbs than two carrots, making it an excellent choice for breakfast or mid-day snacking, satiating the appetite without the false "high" and "crash" associated with refined sugars.

Since the number of diabetics and obesity continue to rise, the dietary choices that consumers make play an increasingly important role but none of us can give up the sweets we naturally crave. Benchmark Foods keeps the health and wellbeing of their consumers in mind, refusing to sacrifice quality by adding unnatural ingredients or unhealthy chemicals. As a result of their dedication to providing premium quality, healthful products, Sweet Abandon is the unrivalled choice for even the most discerning of parents who want to provide their family with only top quality, all natural foods.

Benchmark Foods, LLC creates the gold standard in luscious, all natural foods. With the Sweet Abandon line in particular, Benchmark's mission is to provide an ever-increasing variety of premium quality, diabetic-friendly baked goods for people who refuse to sacrifice taste or pleasure.

Sweet Abandon Personal Cakes come 96 to a foodservice master case and 48 to a retail master case and are available through Nature's Best Distribution and regional brokers. Make general inquiries via email to info@sweetabandon.com. For sales inquiries, contact sales@sweetabandon.com. The public can also purchase 6-packs of Personal Cakes online at www.sweetabandon.gourmetfoodmall.com. For additional inquiries, contact Christie Communications at (805) 565-4122.


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