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In my last post<\/a>, I talked about an occurrence common for diabetics: I was served a soda, and I couldn’t tell if it was really diet, as the bartender claimed.<\/p>\n

On that night, I asked a friend to taste-test for me, and eventually came to the conclusion that the soda was actually sugared. But even when the soda is really diet, I inevitably struggle with the question of, “Is it really diet?” every time I get a soda.<\/p>\n

People, I am about to change your life. A reader wrote in response to my last post– an Aussie with the handle Catapult.<\/p>\n

Catapult has figured out the answer to the perennial, “Is it really diet?” question: test the soda on a blood glucose meter.<\/p>\n

People. I took a drop of Coke on my pinky, and pressed it against my glucose meter strip. Real soda comes up as “Hi.” Diet, on the other hand, is “Lo.”<\/p>\n

Incredible. So genius and so obvious in retrospect, but I never thought to do that. Notably, I have not exhaustively tested this, and I can imagine all sorts of situations in which real sweeteners aren’t registered, or in which fake sweeteners give a falsely high result. And, as with many medical tests, better to err on the safe side and assume all positives are true positives but all negatives are potentially false negatives.<\/p>\n

But, as a simple sanity check, it’s brilliant. And it will save my husband lots of soda testing.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Catapult! You absolutely rock!<\/p>\n

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