SumFoods™

Background

SumFoods™ is a family-owned food manufacturer that specializes, in premium sugar-free and low-carb foods for people with diabetes or low-sugar diet requirements. Located in Georgia.

Our flagship product, SumSweet™, is commercially available, and most of our innovations are in the research or development stage. Products that we are currently working on include, a cream dessert mix, and a low-carb cracker.

TL Matthew is the founder and CEO of SumFoods™. She is a Certified Nutritional Therapist with lifestyle medicine expertise. As someone who was borderline prediabetic and who grew up in the midst of a diabetic family and saw many of her loved ones perish due to complications of diabetes brought on by both high sugar and high carbs.

TL is particularly passionate about helping others make sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their health and well-being.  

She’s a diabetes advocate, public speaker, and author of the book – Spilling the Tea on Sugar.

TL’s inspiration to develop SumSweet+™ came from her desire to quit sugar and lose weight. Being overweight addicted to sugar and borderline prediabetic was the proponent. TL’s daily diet had consisted of mostly sugar-filled foods and other simple carbs. From barbeque sauce to pasta with sauce, and everything in between. She started a low-carb diet to lose weight and improve her health, but nothing helped the sweet tooth she regularly experienced. So, she set out to develop something to alleviate her problem and, along the way, discovered she developed a sweetener that would help others too.

And by the way, she lost 45 pounds and has kept it off til now. To read more about her ice cream and weight loss story, click here.

Sumfoods is a company with a heart; that cares about humans. Our double-bottom-line focus is on social returns alongside financial ones. We work with marginalized individuals.  People disconnected from education, sustainable employment, single moms, re-entry persons, English as a second language, chronically homeless, refugees, and differently-abled.   We allow them to learn a new job skill or a new trade. 

Through our apprenticeship program, we teach production, how to work with people different than themselves, punctuality, and effective communication.

We strive to company-wide is take away all the barriers which can be specific to an individual in their current situation.  To facilitate their success, we partner with various social agencies and organizations in the Atlanta area to provide wrap-around services.

We give people an opportunity to have a full-time job to work to get their feet on the ground and gain momentum toward a better life.

Start your sugar-free low-carb journey now with SumSweet or SumSweet+™!