very week or two a company sends me a new product that they hope I will like and tell you about. Frankly, I am not usually impressed.
But this month Grand Brands LLC in Baltimore sent me something so good that we actually bought more with our own money. Their product is called True Lemon and is simply crystallized lemon. Each packet is the equivalent of two lemon wedges.
It is easy to use. It has a good, strong, tart lemon flavor. It tastes just like lemon. It is completely natural and kosher.
The packets are convenient. It’s good in water, Diet Pepsi, on fish, on anything that is too sweet, like Diet Snapple. Unless you have a big lemon tree in your yard, at about 9 cents per packet, it is less expensive and certainly more convenient than lemons.
After we used up the free sample that Grand Brands, the manufacturer, sent us, we bought a box of 150 packets (plus 40 “free” packets), from one of the online vendors linked at the website for True Lemon. The total cost was $17.94 including shipping.
What does this have to do with diabetes? Just two things that I can think of:
- Each packet has essentially no calories and no carbohydrates, and
- Using acidic foods, like lemon and vinegar, is an excellent way to control blood glucose, as I wrote in Acidic Foods.
The website is True Lemon.
