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Lemon or Lime Juice With Sugary Meals
Drink a small amount of lemon or lime juice, often diluted in water, before, during, or after sugary foods or large carbohydrate meals. The practice is used to slightly blunt the post-meal blood glucose rise and can also serve as a quick response after eating something very sweet.
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“there are now data pointing to the fact that lemon juice and lime juice a couple tablespoons or so if ingested before or even during or even after consumption of sugary foods or I should say foods that sharply increase blood glucose or large carbohydrate meals can actually blunt the blood glucose response.”
Andrew Huberman · Control Sugar Cravings & Metabolism with Science-Based Tools | Huberman Lab Essentials · Apr 30, 2026 · 21:18 · YouTube ↗
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