The sour taste of lemon I believe that people who have tasted it know, so lemon is generally very few people will be directly eaten, are generally used to dry after tea, or direct tea, or used to squeeze into the juice to dilute the drink, then the question came, there are times when the lemon water with a bitter taste, this is what causes it? Lemon should be sour ah, why would there be a bitter flavor?

1, lemon bitter cause

Lemon water bitter is due to the presence of a lot of lemon bitters. Lemon contains a lot of lemon bittersweet, this kind of plant bittersweet in the orange fruit is very high, and lemon is the highest content of a kind, often as a raw material to bring up lemon bittersweet, soak the water incorrectly, the bittersweet soak in the water, there will be a bitter taste.

2, lemon water bitter can drink

Lemon water bitter can drink. Lemon water bitter mainly bubble method is not right, resulting in a large number of lemon bittersweet dissolved in the water, lemon water bitter than sour, taste is not very good, but it is edible, and lemon bittersweet on the human body there are certain benefits.

3, drink bitter lemonade benefits

(1) analgesic and anti-inflammatory

Lemon bitters analogs of the vascular permeability of the acetic acid channel, the bradykinin-induced foot swelling response and arachidonic acid-induced ear swelling in the experimental study found that the lemon bitters has a significant analgesic and antihypertensive properties. Picrosin has significant analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects.

(2) insecticide insecticide

All orange fruits are better planted, and pesticide dependence is very small, the vast majority of bugs are not orange fruits, mainly orange fruits contain bittersweet has a strong insecticide insecticide, human consumption of roundworms and other bodies also have a certain role in the extermination.

4, lemon how to soak water is not bitter

1. Take a fresh lemon, with a little salt in the lemon skin rubbing rubbing once, and then rinse with water, clean off the lemon skin on the preservation of wax and dirty residue.

2. Cut the lemon into small slices with a knife and remove the seeds from the slices.

3. Lemon is not suitable to be soaked in boiling water, just use warm water under 50 degrees, if it is hotter in summer, you can soak it in warm water and then put it in the refrigerator for a while.

Note: Lemon bitterness is mainly concentrated in the lemon seeds and skin, need to be patient to remove the seeds, and do not use boiling water to soak, so that soaked lemonade is acidic, bitter taste light, appropriate to add honey almost no bitter taste.

5, drink lemon water notes

1. Lemon water taste very acidic, its PH is lower than 2.5, the gastrointestinal stimulation is relatively large, therefore, more acid secretion of the crowd is not suitable for consumption.

2. Lemon can not be brewed with boiling water, lemon contains a lot of vitamins, especially vitamin C content is extremely high, boiling water to reduce its nutritional value.

6, lemon water when to drink good

Lemon water is the best time to drink in the afternoon after meals.

In the afternoon period of the sun is weak, and after dinner exposure to the sun is also less, after the meal can be appropriate to protect the gastric mucosa, to help digestion, wait until the night to sleep almost digested, will not form a stimulus to the gastrointestinal.