NUTRITIONAL VALUES OF LEMON(100gm)
100gm of lemon provides
Energy ---29kcals
Carbohydrates --9.32gm
Fiber --2.8gm
Fat -- 0.3gm
Protein -- 1.1gm
Vitamin- C(Ascorbic acid) -- 53mg
Magnesium -- 8mg
Calcium --26mg
Phosphorous -- 16mg
Potassium - 138mg
Zinc - 0.06mg
Lemon or lime is a fruit which is widely used in many foods for enhancing their taste.
Lemon juice is either used in the preparatin of sweets or
used in pickles also
Lemon juice is added at the end of many food preparations to enhance their taste.
Adding lemon juice in chicken, fish preparation helps in increasing the taste of them..The fiber present in chicken and mutton will somewhat dissolve the fiber.So will be digestd quickly.Lemon juice is applied on the raw chicken and mutton
Lemon juice is also added to chicken and mutton before cooking. By adding to fish it helps in the conversion of amines to ammonium.
Summer special
Lemon sharbath also called lemonade without icecubes.
Lemon flavoured soft drinks and chocolates are coming in the market.
The outer covering layer is used in bakery products and puddings preparation.
Lemon juice is used as a temporary preservative.
Also when they are available in large amounts they are used in preparing jams, squashes.
And finally if you have more lemons in your house just put the lemon juice in the ice trays and store it in the fridge whenever you want you can add water to the ice cube add some sugar and have lemonade instantly.
Many people use lemon to prevent vomiting during the journeys.
USE OF LEMON OIL
Cleaner.
- To count large number of papers people use lemon juice itself.
- The oil obtained from the outer shell of lemon is used in cleaning wood and polishing the wood.
- Salt mixed with lemon shells helps in the easy cleaning of copper and brass vessels.
- The detergents and utensils cleaning liquids are prepared using lemon .
- Lime is used in sanitary kitchen deodorants.
- Grease and other spots can be removed using lime juice.
Lemon and Lime are different from each other.
The fully ripe and yellow colored one is lemon.
And the one which is half ripe and green in color is lime.
