Lemon usually choose to pickle the best tea. You can eat directly raw, but should not eat too sour lemon.

Lemon edible effects are as follows:

1, lemon, lemon, summer heat appetizer

Summer summer humidity is heavy, a lot of people fatigue, long hours of work or study after the often poor appetite, drink a cup of lemon infused water, the fresh and sour taste of the people's spirits, but also can open the appetite.

2, can prevent 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 reduce abnormal blood glucose values.

3, often eat lemon to clear heat and phlegm

Lemon can also expel 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 wet and natural climate of the external wet mutual induction, wet and muddy accumulation of the day can be born phlegm.

4, with antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects

Lemon is rich in vitamin C, the role of the human body as 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, delay aging inhibit hyperpigmentation

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, has a strong antioxidant effect on the promotion of the skin's metabolism, delay aging and inhibit the hyperpigmentation is very effective.

Extended information

Lemon (scientific name: Citrus limon? (L.) Burm. f.), Rutaceae citrus plants, lemons, also known as lemon fruit, foreign lemon, Yimou fruit. Small tree, branches less spiny or nearly spineless, young leaves and flower buds dark purplish red, leaf blade thick papery, ovate or elliptic.

Single flowers in axillary or few-flowered clusters. Fruit ellipsoid or ovate, pericarp thick, usually rough, lemon-yellow, juice acidic to very acidic, seeds small, ovate, pointed at the end; testa smooth, cotyledons creamy white, usually simple or both polyembryonic. Fl. April-May, fr. Sept-Nov.

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