Leslie's Organics, LLC

One of my all time favorite sayings was insightfully written by the late, great John Lennon: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"... No truer words had ever been spoken, as unbeknown to my brother and I, our "clearly thought out" business dream was about to change direction.

It all began in the Spring of 2008, with an overwhelming desire to create a low glycemic, gluten-free snack line that was truly safe for diabetics, using the purest, most organic, least processed ingredients we could find. A few years earlier both our parents were diagnosed with Diabetes, and we quickly became appalled at what was being passed off as "diabetic-safe" foods, especially in the snack category. We discovered, that oftentimes, sugar is disguised on labels in a myriad of creative technical terms. Newly invented imitation sugar substitutes are used as sweetening agents. Sugar in other forms are frequently added such as fruit juice concentrates, honey (which when heated and processed for use in manufacturing, essentially becomes sugar syrup), and the most infamous of all, "high fructose corn syrup" (HFCS), now widely known as one of the primary contributors to Diabetes and Obesity. None of these sweeteners are truly "safe", no matter how they are purported to breakdown in the body.