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Between Lemon, Vitamin C and Fair Beautiful Skin

By ebazaar ⋅ August 25, 2010 ⋅

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Loaded with Vitamin C, lemon is one of many source of natural goodness

What’s so good about Lemon? Well, first it’s low in calorie, helps in weight loss, gives flavoring to your food and plenty of Vitamin C that our body need, it’s cheap and easily obtainable and if I were to list each and every goodness of it, this will probably be a long post. Lemons have been cultivated by humans for over a thousand years. The fruit in mentioned in tenth century Arabic literature, but was probably first grown in Assam, India.

Lemon is primarily needed for its juice, although the pulp and rind are also useful for many things, both for culinary or non-culinary purposes. It is usually used in producing medicine due to its antibacterial effects, in manufacturing, cooking and baking as well as the inexpensive readily available source of acid for educational science experiments. Lemon juice has around 5% citric acid and pH reading of 2 to 3. Lemon has strong smell and the extract is also often use as aromatherapy and core ingredients to many perfume base products.

Nutritional Value of Raw Lemon (per 100g)

Calories - 121 kJ ( 29 cal )
Vitamin C - 53.00 mg
Carbohydrate - 9.32 g
Sugar - 2.50 g
Protein - 1.10 g
Fiber - 2.80 g

Lemon contains a number of other essential vitamins and minerals which is needed by the body like calcium, potassium (138 mg/100g), Folate, Vitamin B and many more. An average size lemon fruit can give you about 3 tablespoon of pure lemon juice. To get more juice out from a lemon fruit, leave it out at room temperature or heat it in a microwave for just a little while to make squeezing out the juice easier.

Why is lemon good for weight loss? First is because of its low calorie, and second because it is said to be able to block away the accumulation of fat from the food that we consume considerably. So instead of ordering any calorie-loaded drinks for lunch or dinner, why don’t you opt for a nice ice cold less sugar lemonade instead?

Lemon for great complexion? Besides that lemon is a great complexion toner to radiate your skin since it has a lot of Vitamin C. take a tablespoon of pure lemon juice and mix it with lukewarm water and wash your face with it once in the morning and once at night. It will leave your skin feeling refresh and clean.

Lighter hair with lemon extract? This is a proven natural method of lightening your hair. All you got to do is dampen your hair with lemon juice and sit out in the morning sun for an hour (when it is not too hot). Light lemon juice (mix with a cup of warm water) is said to be a great conditioner for the hair but be careful if you have sensitive scalp!

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