Eating a lemon a day like this is very easy to hurt the stomach, because the lemon will stimulate the gastric mucosa.

Benefits of lemon:

1, digestive aid, promote wound healing

Vitamin C is one of the important nutrients to promote wound healing and keep bones, tissues and cartilage healthy. Vitamin C also helps neutralize free radicals and inhibit inflammation in the body. Especially women, often drink lemon water can not only beauty can also prevent a variety of diseases Oh. Lemon water is also beneficial to digestive health, can stimulate gastric secretion, help digestion, promote defecation, clean intestinal tract. Drinking lemon water can relieve indigestion, heartburn and flatulence and many other symptoms.

2, improve immunity

Lemon water is rich in vitamin C, which helps the human immune system to resist the invasion of various germs on the body, drinking lemon water in moderation can also effectively promote the human body on the absorption of iron, because vitamin C can make the human body in the hemoglobin bioavailability of iron increased by four times.

3, anti-aging skin

Related experiments have proved that the antioxidant effect of lemonade helps to cope with the damage of free radicals in the body, which can effectively alleviate the aging process. Which is rich in vitamin C can effectively help the synthesis of amino acids collagen, to protect the skin, to prevent wrinkles early.

4, purify the urinary tract

Drinking lemon water has a diuretic effect. Lemon water helps the body to expel toxins faster, which in turn purifies the organism and keeps it healthy. Lemon water also helps to change the pH of the urinary tract, preventing the growth of harmful bacteria.

5, reduce appetite, weight loss and slimming

There are many benefits of consuming lemon. It can lose weight and slim down, so it is very popular with the majority of dieters. Because lemon is rich in soluble fiber pectin, after eating can be very effective in enhancing the sense of satiety, which can effectively control your desire to eat, thus preventing their own excessive diet. It can keep you full for a long time, and it can also help you reduce the habit of snacking, so as to control your weight.

6, reduce urine acidity

Lemon water contains citric acid, but the potassium and calcium ions contained therein can be combined with acidic ions, which can effectively reduce the acidity of urine, and therefore beneficial to health, is a typical alkaline food.

7, fresh breath

Lemon water has a strong antiseptic effect, it can be very effective in killing harmful bacteria in the mouth, so that your breath stays fresh. Drinking a glass of lemon water after waking up in the morning can be very effective in refreshing, it is much better than the effect of coffee. Here I suggest that you drink lemon water do not and chilled, its greenhouse effect under the best lemon water.

8, improve blood circulation

Lemon is rich in potassium, the element can effectively help control blood pressure, relieve stress. It also contains a large amount of vitamin P, which also helps to enhance capillary elasticity and improve blood circulation.

9, beneficial liver detoxification

Lemon benefits are very much, often drink lemon water to help detoxify the liver, lemon water through the promotion of bile production and purification of the liver. Lemon water also helps to control excess bile, reduce the body's mucus production, help dissolve gallstones.

Extended information

Lemon leaves can be used for the extraction of spices, lemon fruit epidermis can be produced lemon essential oil, lemon essential oil is the production of high-level cosmetic important raw materials, but also the production of drugs for the treatment of stone disease is an important component of the embryo; the fruit embryo can also be the production of pectin, orange peel glycosides, pectin is the production of high-level candies, preserves, jam, and can also be used in the production of treatment for stone disease. Important raw materials, but also for the production of drugs for the treatment of gastric diseases; hesperidin is mainly used for the treatment of cardiovascular disease; fruit embryo juice can be produced both high-level beverages, but also the production of high-level fruit wines; fruit dregs can be used as fodder or fertilizers; seeds can be squeezed to obtain high-level cooking oil or medicine. Therefore, lemon is a treasure, is an important raw material for processing green products.

Reference Baidu Encyclopedia_Lemon