THE JAM, THE SUGAR AND THE DIABETIS

This title sounds like an old western movie of Sergio Leone (1966): "The good, the bad and the ugly", doesn't it?
During the free tasting session we regularly organize in the different outlets, some customers hesitate to buy jam because suffering of diabetes. Last day, I saw an impressive woman explaining me she will not buy jam because she was taking care of her hyperglycemia, but in one of her hand there was an ice-cream and a can of soft drink in the other... It seems there is a lack of knowledge about the sources of sugar, their relative quantity and their reasonable use in the diet. 

For example, this woman didn't realize that, in a can of coke of 355 ml, theres is 40.5 g of sugar. In a jar of 300g jam there is 195 g of sugar. But the big difference is you can drink your can of Coke in one minute and the jar of jam in many days. In the spoon of jam you spread on a slice of bread at breakfast one time a day, you will have something like 3g of sugar.

If you drink one can of coke with one slice of bread with one spoon of jam, you will eat 43.5 g of sugar but 93% of this sugar is coming from the coke.

 According to 

http://www.clivir.com,

"A diabetes diet is one that advocates a proportional grouping of foods, that together help to control blood glucose levels. Your glucose level will be higher after you eat a meal, and lower in between."

Of course I will never tell people with diabetes to eat one jar of jam every day.

I can only advice people to have a good life hygiene to benefit of a normal life. No smoking, no alcohol and practice of sport is certainly more efficient than no jam in reasonable quantity.

Other news of the stores:

Two other Cafe Bob's Pastries stores will present and sale our jams this coming week: the outlet in Bob's Gaisano mall and the outlet in Bob's Lopue's East. We frankly thanks the management of Bob's who likes our jams and offers us a great opportunity. The only problem is: it will multiply for us the terrible temptation during the free tasting session. Do you really think it is easy to resist during two or three hours smelting of the croissant, seeing of the wonderful and artistic cakes and hearing the customers enjoying their merienda?

The question of the week:

Where is the Lola's garden and are you growing organically your fruit and vegetables?

Lola has no land, sorry! The only way to have a large choice of fruit and vegetable in sufficient quantity and at any time is to work with farmers. Our activities in Natural farming helped us to have relations with, when it is possible, organic farmers. Most of the fruits we use are growing naturally in mountains. For example the Kalumpit (Sarali) or Jackfruit are not chemically treated. Of course we cannot control imported fruits like apples or oranges used in small quantities. Hopefully, Negros island offers a large choice of fruits and vegetable and there is a real will to become organic. We hope in the coming years, the organic practices will be the common way for farming.

 Available this week:

           Guyabano-calamansi, 

            Jackfruit-calamansi, stock in the stores only, 

            Kalumpit, here called Sarali, the fruit you turn in your hand to make it softer, stock reduced 

            Pomelo-orange, 

            Papaya-Buko,
            Breadfruit, stock in few stores only

            Tomato-apple jam

            Watermelon

     The price is 130 P*/bottle 300g (8oz) except the Kalumpit  and tomato-apple jam at 150 P/bottle, and watermelon at 140 P/bottle.

     Minimum order for home delivery: 6 bottles mixed,

     Free delivery in Bacolod (payment at the delivery)

*not applied in local selling places


Send your remarks and orders to:

lolasgardenjam@gmail.com
or Text: 0919 3555 424