1. Lemon taste sour, slightly bitter, can not be eaten like other fruits, fresh food, but lemon rind is rich in aromatic volatile components, can be a good summer, appetizer wake up the spleen. Summer summer humidity is heavy, many people fatigue, long hours of work or study after often have a poor appetite, a cup of lemon water, fresh and acidic flavor of the people's spirits, but also can open the appetite.

In Western cuisine, more lemon for seafood seasoning, remove the fishy odor, Southeast Asian cuisine, it is used to cook directly to highlight the sweet and sour taste. People in the south of China love to eat roast duck, roast goose, also less lemon as a condiment.

2. Prevention of cardiovascular disease

Lemon is rich in vitamin C and vitamin P, can enhance the elasticity and toughness of blood vessels, can prevent and treat hypertension and myocardial infarction symptoms. In recent years, foreign research has also found that lemons contain a component similar to insulin, which can make abnormal blood sugar values lower.

3. Clearing heat and removing phlegm

Lemon can also remove phlegm. Lemon peel is more effective than citrus in removing phlegm. Summer weather is hot and humid, if the diet does not pay attention to, the body's internal moisture and the natural climate of the external moisture mutual induction, wet and muddy accumulation of time can be born phlegm. Therefore, summer phlegm, throat discomfort, lemon juice with warm water and a small amount of salt, can be accumulated in the throat phlegm smooth cough.

4. Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory

Lemon is rich in vitamin C, the role of the human body to play like a natural antibiotic, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, enhance the body's immunity to a variety of effects, you can drink more hot lemon water to maintain the body.

5. Beauty fruit

Lemon contains vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and other nutrients, but also rich in organic acids, citric acid, lemon is a highly alkaline food, with a strong antioxidant effect on the promotion of skin metabolism, delay aging and inhibit the hyperpigmentation is very effective.

6. Stop vomiting fruit

The two Guangzhou region of Chinese medicine writings "Cantonese" recorded: "lemon, Yimuzi, taste very acidic, pregnant women with liver deficiency addiction, so it is said that Yimuzi. When ripe, people compete to buy, to hide more and after years of long as yet, the juice can be replaced by vinegar." That is, pregnant women can place some lemons next to the bed, get up in the morning and sniff, have the effect of eliminating morning sickness.