We have joined the two major organizations dealing with diabetes and hope to support their efforts as we can. You have pointed out correctly that a carb is a carb is a carb.
Diabetics can eat whatever they want, as long as they make certain allowances.
You are absolutely correct in your thinking. I do not know why some of these items are still around. They are not a free food, at all. Anyway, they do not contain sucrose, so that is how they can say they are sugar-free. I really see no use for them since they often times taste bad anyway, and my patients then really want the real thing.