True Lemon (and all the wonderful products that came after) exists because David Schleider had a eureka moment while eating lunch with his father. David, who grew up in his family’s catering business and is an inventor by nature, had already developed some other food products and concepts by the time he had that memorable lunch with his father.
Both lemon lovers, David and his dad had asked the waiter for more lemons, when David thought to himself: “Why hasn’t anyone been able to figure out how to put fresh-squeezed lemon taste into a packet (but way better than those yucky lemon juice packets) so it’s always convenient?”
Given David’s background in food and catering, he also realized that lemons – as much as he loved them – had some other issues:
Their taste is inconsistent
They’re not convenient
And often when lemons are used in a recipe, the recipe really only wants the lemon’s flavor, not the moisture inherent in lemon juice, which can run off or flash off depending on how it is being used.
For the next 3 years, David devoted himself entirely to revolutionizing citrus by creating a proprietary process that crystallizes the lemon’s juice and oils to deliver fresh-squeezed taste in a convenient, shelf-stable format. (This patented process has become the “intel” inside of all our True products and allows us to “own” citrus in this format.)
In June 2003, David launched Grand Brands (now True Citrus Co.) with its first product, True Lemon. Unique to the market, each convenient sachet provided fresh-squeezed taste, made with only simple and clean ingredients.
Like many start-up businesses, those early years were challenging, rocky, hard and yet super fun and rewarding. We worked a ton, we learned a lot, and we started hearing from people who found True Lemon and loved it. And what we loved was how delighted and surprised they were when they first tried True Lemon because David achieved exactly what he dreamed: He found a way to make fresh-squeezed lemon taste easy and convenient.
Today, our True Citrus family of products has grown to 4 delicious, core citrus flavors (True Lemon, True Lime, True Orange and True Grapefruit) available in a variety of formats, naturally sweetened, low calorie lemonades, limeades and iced teas, 0-calorie energy products powered by green tea, flavorful citrus spice blends and over 60 retail and foodservice products.
All True Citrus products:
are made with ingredients that you can pronounce
are made with citrus juices and oils (which is what gives them their fresh-squeezed taste)
have low calories (0 to 10 calories per serving)
have low sugar (0 to 1 gram per serving)
contain NO artificial sweeteners, flavors, preservatives, gluten or sodium
Whether you’re looking for a better way to lemon for your cooking applications or looking for just a light, unsweetened fresh-squeezed taste in your water or something sweeter (but without any artificial flavors or preservatives), True Citrus has a 100% delicious citrus choice that you’ll love!
Drop us a line and share your True love!
It’s a joy to work in our small but growing company, with people we really like and respect, to create products that we and our customers love. But we’re not only lucky, we’re also honored. Because every day we hear from our customers who write or call us just to say how much our products mean to them.
Our True Citrus team is passionate about sharing our big love of citrus with you and the world. When we started this company almost 15 years ago we started with this commitment. And we also started with the commitment to treat customers the way we want to be treated. (Just like our moms taught us.) So that’s why we have a 100% guarantee of satisfaction that we always stand behind. That’s why we put our phone number and email address on every box and every packet. And that’s why we’re here to answer your calls and emails.
Let us know what you think about how we’re doing! We love hearing from our customers so drop us an email, give us a call toll-free at 866-885-3666 or send us a letter to 11501 Pocomoke Court, Suite D, Baltimore, MD 21220.
Be Healthy. Be Happy. Be True.
