A common trend in the food industry these days is the push for more organic, instinctive foods to put back or link their by artificial means-sweetened, artificially-colored counterparts. No combined wants extra chemicals and preservatives in their food and beverages, right? So wherefore would PWDs be any different with their glucose tablets? Which are, you bon, supposed to be pure sugar? Glucose tabs are joining the organic movement with the launch of two untested lines of glucose tablets, Dex4 Naturals from Atlanta-based CanAm Care and GlucoLift from the San Diego-based start-up Jungell.

CanAm Care's Dex4 Naturals

CanAm Care came onto the glucose tablet scene a couple of days back, and so became the primary musician with their Dex4 products when BD — the makers of those chalky glucose tablets known and hated by almost anyone who tested them — sold their glucose tablet business to CanAm Care two and half years ago. Many people were thrilled with the improver of tastier flavors, like raspberry, grapevine and straight work apple.

Just there's a small subset of patriotic BD customers who were non happy. BD's glucose tablets were to begin with made free of artificial flavors and colors. CanAm Care has acceptable headphone calls again and again from customers complaining some the Dex4 products.

"The customers were locution, 'We used to buy the BD product because it was dye-free'," explains Phil Willis, VP of Selling. "They said, 'We don't want any color in our glucose. We father't want artificial flavoring in our product.'"

In response, last month, CanAm Precaution launched new Dex4 Naturals, a pure glucose tablet made without any coloring dyes or gluten or caffein. Right now, they're only selling them in orange season, which I'm not personally a Brobdingnagian lover of. But if gross sales go advantageously, Dex4 Naturals contrive to expand into other flavors.

"We are working a flavor scheme that testament hopefully hit markets in 2012," Phil says. "We hope to bring something new and sexy to glucose tablets. They've au fon been flavored the way they are for or so 20 age. Even competitors basically copy what we've done. We want to pushing the limits on what flavor options could be delivered, and deal with this feeling fatigue that's a big issue with glucose tablets."

(Sidesplitter, it's almost like they'rhenium listening to customers, no?)

Dex4 Natural's are already getable in Walmart and Walgreens, and will be coming to RiteAid shortly. The tablets are available in 50-count bottles for $6.99 and rolls of 10 for $1.49, and for each one tablet contains 4 grams of sugar. CanAm Care is providing DiabetesMine readers with a Buy Cardinal Get One coupon for any of the Dex4 products!

CanAm Care is also a big advocate of getting folks to make the switch from treating low-growing blood sugars with juice surgery soda to treating them with glucose tabs. Wherefore? To sell product, course. But also to assistant with your health! Because if you treat just three low origin sugars a week (the average for a PWD) with juice, you're overwhelming 26,000 extra calories a twelvemonth! That's seven extra pounds you'll get ahead! Want to know how many a extra calories YOU are intense, by treating lows with items jam-packed with zoftig and calories? Check out CanAm's nifty "Smart Choices" reckoner.

Jungell's GlucoLift

San Diego-founded Chris Angell was one of CanAm Care's dissatisfied customers. After years of disliking glucose tablets because of their "ingredients, gustation, texture, and packaging," Chris, a 30-year-old type 1 PWD with no nutrient science background, went active creating his own glucose tabs line. Launched a little over a class ago, his product GlucoLift uses non-GMO dextrose (which means the dextrose is not from Zea mays), and comes in trine flavors: Chromatic Cream, Wild Berry, and Cherry.

"Our cherry tan comes from cherries, our Chuck Berry flavor from berries, and our orange-cream flavor from oranges and cream," says Chris. "We preceptor't use any FD&C OR Lake colors, as they have been linked to many wellness risks, and serve nobelium benefit in terms of raising blood sugar. My feeling is that diabetes is plenty to deal with; there's No need to ingest risky chemicals to regale deep blood saccharide when they wear't provide whatever added welfare."

GlucoLift products likewise come with an pleasing-to-open impudent-top, unlike the stoppers or twist caps on the Dex4 products. Chris says those products behind be difficult to open when low, shaky and disoriented (as pointed out thusly eloquently aside our D-blogger friend Bernard Farrell).

GlucoLift is also the product to receive an "Approved Production" seal from Take Control of Your Diabetes (TCOYD), the pop conference series founded by endocrinologist and type 1 PWD Dr. Steve Edelman, who is too Chris's endocrinologist. We haven't had a chance to try GlucoLift ourselves here at the'Mine yet, but Chris says, "Dr. Edelman is a big fan of the tablets."

You can hitch samples when Chris exhibits at TCOYD conferences, and GlucoLift is also available on Amazon.com for $8.99 for a bottle of 40 tablets. Same Dex4, each tablet contains 4 grams of sugar.

We're definitely big fans of getting rid of dyes and other artificial crap! We match with Chris that at that place's enough artificial garbage in the food we all eat already, so no indigence to add it to our glucose tabs.

So, anyone planning on making the leap to organic hypo treatments? Besides, WHO's got a favorite flavor? Amy and I some prefer the Berry varieties ourselves.