GO EAT... LEMONS.WE ARE not suggesting eating them like apples, but putting lemon juice or zest into a range of meals adds flavour and nutrients. Using a squeeze of juice with olive oil makes a healthy salad dressing and adding a wedge to fish dishes is also a firm favourite. Drinking lemon juice with warm water every morning also stimulates the digestive system. The high vitamin C vitamin C or ascorbic acid Water-soluble organic compound important in animal metabolism. Most animals produce it in their bodies, but humans, other primates, and guinea pigs need it in the diet to prevent scurvy. content of the lemon has been used for hundreds of years to ward off scurvy scurvy, deficiency disorder resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) in the diet. Scurvy does not occur in most animals because they can synthesize their own vitamin C, but humans, other primates, guinea pigs, and a few other species lack an enzyme . There is little sodium, so the fruit is good as a flavouring for those on a low salt diet. The pectin pectin, any of a group of white, amorphous, complex carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruits and certain vegetables. Fruits rich in pectin are the peach, apple, currant, and plum. Protopectin, present in unripe fruits, is converted to pectin as the fruit ripens. in lemon - found in the peel - is a great source of fibre. In addition, lemon juice increases the acidity of the digestive system. This helps the body absorb calcium, which is then stored in fat cells. Research has shown that the more calcium there is in a fat cell, the more fat the cells burn.. |
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