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Drink of the Week

True Lemon and True Lime substitutes

This drink starts out dry, but once you add water, tea, or another beverage, it comes into its own. True Lemon and True Lime are little packets of all-natural crystallized lemon and lime substitutes. They strike me as two of the best new products to hit the market in a long time. There are hundreds of uses for them in the kitchen, but just emptying a packet into a glass of cold water makes a good drink. There seems to be a slight effervescence (more so in the lemon than the lime), and the flavours are, well, True. No sweetness, no calories, no carbs, no preservatives, no artificial taste, just straight citrus as and when you want it. Unopened, the packets have a 24-month shelf life, and they come in boxes of 40 (the taste equivalent of 10 lemons or limes), for a reasonable $4.99 at selected Save-On-Foods stores. Winner.