I put 3 ‘healthy’ chocolate options to the test and the bone broth shake tasted like a creamy milkshake

AS December nears, soon we volition spot cocoa successful calendars, cocoa successful enactment boxes and, frankly, cocoa everywhere.

But determination are already 8 cardinal of america who devour chocolate each day.

So however bash you get a cocoa hole without each the sweetener and calories?

Today, I enactment immoderate steadfast alternatives to the test.

FLAVOURED SHAKES

THESE shakes from UFIT travel successful assorted antithetic flavours and are designed for those who privation to battalion successful protein.

They incorporate 25g per 330ml vessel and the lone sweetener successful these drinks is the people occurring benignant from the beverage but that is inactive 11g.

This cocoa 1 contains skimmed milk, beverage macromolecule ore and skimmed beverage powder. Not 1 for vegans!

It does incorporate sucralose, too, though, which makes this truly overly saccharine for my taste.

RRP £1.15 for 330ml, ufitdrinks.com.

PROTEIN BARS

THERE are plentifulness of protein bars retired determination but I’m often enactment disconnected by the texture, sensation and endless additives successful them.

Barebells is simply a marque that I person tried successful the past and I person ever loved its products.

Its newest is the Marshmallow Rocky Road bar, 55g, which was launched conscionable a fewer weeks ago.

It has 17g of protein, 217 calories and conscionable 2g of sweetener per 55g bar.

It has a chewy marshmallow layer, crunchy peanuts and saccharine caramel successful a beverage cocoa coating.

There is collagen and dairy successful these arsenic good arsenic a fewer E numbers but they are debased successful sugar, precocious successful macromolecule and person a decent magnitude of fibre, with that definite cocoa hit.

I find them truly filling and satisfying.

About £2 each – 12 for £23.99, barebells.co.uk.

BONE BROTH SHAKE

A VERY clever, steadfast product.

Freja, which has been making bony broth for years, has present brought retired the archetypal ever bony broth shakes.

These travel successful a chocolatey version, earthy cacao positive vanilla bean, chaotic strawberry and an unflavoured version.

They are 100 per cent natural.

The chocolate 1 contains Swedish beef bony broth pulverization positive sunflower lecithin (from sunflowers), coconut sugar, 11 per cent cacao pulverization and earthy flavouring.

It besides has Type I collagen, giving spot to your skin, bones, ligaments and tendons, and Type III, which is large for muscles.

There is 13g of protein, 6.4g of sweetener and conscionable 100 calories per 25g serving.

They sensation great, conscionable similar a creamy milkshake.

From £25.19 for a 300g bag, frejafoods.com.