The Amber Lyn Story

The Amber Lyn Story: From Cop to Sugar Free Chocolatier

A desperate search for a healthy but great tasting chocolate led to the birth of Amber Lyn Chocolates in 1999 and it all started with a retired cop.

Lyman Peterson was a Utah highway patrolman who spent a career busting DUI’s, admonishing speeders and helping damsels in distress change flat tires. In an earlier life, he’d been a home-based chocolatier and loved making chocolate everythings for friends, family and a few customers. After patrolling the highways and byways of the Wild West for 30 years and putting on as many pounds, he retired and searched for low-carb chocolate that tasted like real chocolate. Most of what he found was just awful and he couldn’t find anything to satisfy his craving for good tasting, high quality chocolate that wouldn’t bust his low-carb diet.

The ensuing search led to Belgium where he found the object of his quest. It was real Belgian chocolate made with the world-renowned goodness that the Belgians are famous for but with no fillers or preservatives. It was rich, smooth and contains healthy antioxidants and polyphenols. And, it was sugar free but didn’t taste that way. There is no unpleasant aftertaste. It was also lower in calories, lower in carbohydrates and contained no gluten. Using a second-hand melter in his basement he began pouring and hand-wrapping chocolate bars. When demand reached 10,000 bars a week it was time to take the next step.

The company moved out of the basement and acquired several more second-hand commercial melters and a high-speed wrapper. Named after Peterson’s only daughter, Amber Lyn Chocolates has established itself as the preferred source of sugar-free and no sugar added chocolate for thousands of devoted chocolate lovers from across the country and even overseas.

Since those early days in the family’s basement, Amber Lyn has satisfied the chocolate cravings of thousands of loyal customers in the USA and abroad.  The company ships product as far away as Japan and Malaysia and soon to China and Saudi Arabia. Many Amber Lyn chocolate lovers have health concerns such as Diabetes or Celiac Disease. Many more just want great chocolate to be a part of a healthier lifestyle.

The company now offers not only it’s famous dark and milk chocolate bars in 17 different and delicious varieties, but also truffles, caramels, tasting bites and covered almonds. All of them made with the world’s finest sugar free and no sugar added chocolate and the best nuts, flavors and inclusions available on world markets.

These days Amber Lyn Chocolate is on the move introducing new products and opening new channels of distribution. The company has grown and now occupies a small facility in the heart of Southern Utah’s red rock country. If you want chocolate that can be part of a healthy lifestyle and yet tastes better than any other chocolate you’ve eaten, Amber Lyn is for you.

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