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Lemons add valuable Vitamin C to a diet. All of the lemon is edible and can be used to flavour and enhance many recipes and drinks. The juice of a lemon has many uses besides as a flavouring for food and drink.

Lemon Juice

Lemon juice can be extracted by squeezing from the Lemon (Citrus Limon). Lemon juice is used for flavouring drinks and food. Lemon juice is also used as an ingredient in some beauty products.

Did you know? Lemon juice neutralises the odor of fish and is popular as a marinade.

Lemon juice can be used in the home as a stain remover. Test first, it has a bleaching effect and the acidic juice can actually destroy some stains.

Did you know? The grated rind of the lemon, called lemon zest, is used to add flavor to baked goods, puddings, rice and other dishes.

Lemon juice can be used to clean copper-bottomed cooking pots. Try dipping a slice of lemon or half a lemon, after the juice has been extracted, in salt and use to scrub the copper pot.

Did you know? Lemonade is a lemon-flavored drink, usually made from the juice of lemons, water and sugar.

Lemon juice has also been used to bleach freckles.

Did you know? Lemon is useful as an anti-bacterial agent because of its low pH.

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