Pickle Power! Got A Summer Sweet Tooth? Dill It And Kill It!

How's that garden coming?  Cucumbers?  If you have a family history of diabetes like I do, you are continuously on the lookout for ways to cut cravings for sweets.  So if the opposite of sweet is sour, maybe look there first?Pickles can do wonders at curbing cravings – especially if you’ve got a soft-spot for sweet stuff. Pickles are crunchy, sour, pungent and spicy, all at once, and overwhelm the senses.

In an experiment, hungry participants were practically drooling over some delicious desserts they would soon be eating. First, they had to eat a pickle. In most cases, the urge to eat the sweets was gone in as little as 10 seconds. Those who insisted on dessert say they ate less of it than they would have pre-pickle.

Source: http://www.wisegeek.com/why-do-some-pregnant-women-crave-pickles-and-ice-cream.htm