Grapefruit and lemon taste sweet and sour, and are rich in organic acids such as citric acid and malic acid, which can promote saliva secretion and increase gastric acid secretion, and are suitable for people with poor appetite.

Lemon symbiotic food

1, lemon+chicken

The sour taste of lemon can promote appetite, so adding the smell of lemon can make the smell of roasted chicken legs more appetizing.

2. Lemon+sugarcane juice

The combination of lemon juice and sugarcane juice is beneficial to the stomach to promote fluid production and quench thirst, relieve irritability and regulate the stomach. Lemon and sugarcane juice can be used for drinking too much, accumulating heat and damaging body fluids, being upset and thirsty, vomiting and eating less.

3, lemon+aloe vera

Drinking sour drinks containing lemon juice can help people produce saliva. However, people with damaged oral mucosa are not suitable to eat lemon juice, because it contains too many acidic substances, which will greatly stimulate the damaged oral mucosa.

Therefore, friends with damaged oral mucosa mostly choose not to drink lemon juice in order to avoid aggravation of pain. At this time, you can drink aloe rock candy directly, because aloe has anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects.

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The medical function of lemon has long been recorded in ancient medical books. According to the Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen, a pharmacist in the Ming Dynasty, lemon has the function of promoting fluid production to quench thirst and dispel summer heat. Lemon juice is bitter, mild and nontoxic. "Luchuan Materia Medica" says that lemon fruit and peel juice have the effects of dispersing stagnation, invigorating stomach, relieving pain and treating abdominal pain, regardless of diet.

Modern medicine believes that lemon is the same as medicine and food to prevent cardiovascular diseases. Because citric acid combines with calcium ions in human body to form soluble complex, it can relieve calcium ions and promote blood coagulation. Therefore, patients with hypertension and myocardial infarction often drink lemonade, which is of great benefit to improving symptoms.