1. Whitening: Because lemon is extremely rich in vitamins, lemonade is a good beauty product, which can prevent and eliminate skin pigmentation and play a whitening role.
2. Prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases: Drinking lemonade can also prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases, because lemonade can alleviate the role of calcium ions in promoting blood coagulation, so it can prevent and assist in the treatment of hypertension and myocardial infarction.
3. Prevention and treatment of kidney calculi: Lemon water contains a lot of citrate, which can inhibit the crystallization of calcium salt, thus preventing the formation of kidney calculi and even reducing the number of stones in some patients with chronic kidney calculi. The research results published at the annual meeting of the American Urological Society also show that drinking lemon juice can increase the level of citrate in urine, and citrate can prevent minerals in urine from forming crystals in the kidneys, that is, kidney calculi.
4. Improve immunity: Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which has many functions such as anti-bacteria, improving immunity and assisting the formation of bone collagen. Drinking lemonade regularly can supplement vitamin C. Drinking 500 to 1000 ml of lemonade every day can reduce runny nose when you have a cold, and the cold will spread quickly, especially when you have just caught a cold, and you can recover without taking medicine. In addition to resisting bacteria and enhancing immunity, it also has the effects of stimulating appetite, promoting digestion, promoting fluid production and quenching thirst, and relieving summer heat.
5. Eliminating phlegm: Little known is that lemon can also eliminate phlegm, and the effect of eliminating phlegm is stronger than that of oranges and citrus. Add warm water and salt to lemon juice, drink it and cough up the thick phlegm accumulated in your throat. At the beginning of a cold, you may wish to wash it with lemon and honey, which can relieve sore throat and reduce discomfort such as dry throat.
1, lemon is an appetizing fruit: lemon produces body fluid and relieves summer heat.
Although the taste of lemon food is sour and slightly bitter, it can't be eaten raw or fresh like other fruits, but lemon peel is rich in aromatic volatile components, which can promote fluid production, relieve summer heat, stimulate appetite and strengthen the spleen. Summer is hot and humid, and many people are very tired. After working or studying for a long time, you often have a bad appetite. Drinking a cup of lemon soaked in water, the fresh and sour taste makes people feel refreshed and can open their appetite. Lemon is often used as a seasoning for seafood in western food to remove the fishy smell, while Southeast Asian food is directly cooked with it to highlight its sweet and sour taste. Lemon is also indispensable among the roast ducks and geese loved by southerners in China.
2. Lemon is a fruit for lowering blood pressure: preventing cardiovascular diseases.
Lemon is rich in vitamin C and vitamin P, which can enhance the elasticity and toughness of blood vessels and prevent and treat hypertension and myocardial infarction. In recent years, foreign research also found that green lemon contains an insulin-like component, which can reduce abnormal blood sugar levels.
3, lemon is an expectorant fruit: often eat lemon to clear away heat and phlegm.
Lemon can also resolve phlegm. Lemon peel has stronger expectorant effect than citrus. It is hot and humid in summer. If you don't pay attention to the diet, the internal dampness of the human body and the external dampness of the natural climate interact, and phlegm will be produced over time. So in summer, there is a lot of phlegm and my throat is uncomfortable. Adding warm water and a small amount of salt to lemon juice can successfully cough up the thick phlegm accumulated in the throat.
Lemon is an anti-inflammatory fruit: it has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects.
Lemon is rich in vitamin C, which acts like a natural antibiotic on human body. Has antibacterial, antiinflammatory, and immunity enhancing functions. You can drink more hot lemonade to maintain your health.
5, lemon is a beauty fruit: delaying aging and inhibiting pigmentation.
Lemon contains vitamin B 1, vitamin B2, vitamin C and other nutrients, and is also rich in organic acids and citric acid. Lemon is a kind of high alkaline food, which has strong antioxidant effect and is very effective in promoting skin metabolism, delaying aging and inhibiting pigmentation.