If you want to know how much you like lemon, you can see it from its position in the food industry.
Add some lemon juice when cooking, delicious and nutritious
Squeeze a few drops of lemon when mixing wine, fresh and sweet
And more people use lemons to make water,
The moment makes white water 'charming'.
Lemon is rich in citric acid, malic acid, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, etc. it also contains lemon essential oil, hesperidin, naringin and other components. Slice soaking is more conducive to the release of nutrients.
Don't underestimate a glass of ordinary lemonade. Many people don't make it right. Life times (wechat search "lt0385" to follow) integrated foreign reports and interviewed nutrition experts to uncover the health secret of a glass of lemonade.
Experts interviewed:
Fan Zhihong, associate professor, School of food science and nutrition engineering, China Agricultural University
Top 10 health benefits of lemonade
According to Daily Telegraph, nutritionist Michelle & middot; shevaray & middot; Blackie in Sydney, Australia, pointed out several health benefits of lemonade.
Strengthen immunity
Lemonade is rich in vitamin C and helps the immune system fight colds. Experts say lemonade also helps the body absorb iron, because vitamin C can increase the bioavailability of non heme iron by four times.
Promote wound healing
Vitamin C is one of the important nutrients to promote wound healing and maintain the health of bones, tissues and cartilage; it also helps to neutralize free radicals and inhibit inflammation in the body.
Fight against skin aging
The antioxidative effect of lemonade is helpful to deal with the damage of free radicals in vivo and alleviate the aging process.
Its rich vitamin C can help amino acids to synthesize collagen, protect skin and prevent wrinkles from early generation.
Reduce appetite
Lemon water contains soluble cellulose pectin, which is helpful to enhance satiety, control appetite and prevent overeating.
Maintaining a longer sense of fullness helps you to eat less snacks and control your weight.
Digestive aid
Lemonade is good for digestive tract health, can stimulate secretion of gastric juice, help digestion and promote defecation. It can also relieve dyspepsia, heartburn, flatulence and other symptoms.
Purify urethra
Lemonade has diuretic effect, and helps to change the pH value of urethra and prevent harmful bacteria.
Reduce urine acidity
Although there is citric acid in lemonade, the potassium and calcium plasma in it can combine with acid ion, which can reduce the acidity of urine and is beneficial to health. It is a typical alkaline food.
Fresh breath
Lemonade has a bactericidal effect, especially can kill harmful bacteria in the mouth, so as to keep the breath fresh. A lemonade for breakfast is more refreshing than coffee. Experts suggest that you don't drink lemonade frozen, the best room temperature.
Improve blood circulation
Lemonade is rich in potassium, which can help control blood pressure and relieve pressure. Lemon water also contains vitamin P, which helps to enhance capillary elasticity and improve blood circulation.
Yigan detoxification
Lemonade can promote the formation of bile, purify the liver, control the excess of bile, reduce the formation of mucus and reduce the risk of gallstones.
4 tips to make the best lemonade
1 fresh lemon is the best choice
Many people want to buy dried lemon slices to make water, but it's a big mistake.
Every 100 grams of fresh lemon contains about 22 milligrams of vitamin C, which is a highly active antioxidant that can be damaged by light and heat.
In addition, vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin, which is easy to exist in the environment with water. When exposed to oxygen rich air after losing water, it is easy to be accelerated oxidation damage.
However, the content of vitamin C in dried lemon is almost zero after dehydration and exposure to air for a long time. Therefore, fresh lemon is the best choice.
Fresh lemon must be peeled and sliced, because part of the flavonoids in the skin are higher, such as hesperidin, naringin, etc., which are all healthy ingredients.
Lemon essential oil is also mainly in the skin, and cutting thin will help the aroma components in the lemon skin to bubble out.
Flavonoids have a light bitter taste, and lemon itself with the sour, hot days drink more thirst.
The rest of the lemon can be coated with honey at the incision, wrapped with plastic wrap, and stored in the refrigerator for three days.
2. The temperature of 60 ~ 70 ℃ is suitable
The water for soaking lemon is too cold, so the fragrance is not easy to bubble out; if it is soaked in boiling water, more bitter substances will be dissolved, such as hesperidin, etc.
There are concerns that hot water can cause the loss of vitamin C. In fact, lemon has strong acidity, while vitamin C has better heat resistance under acidic conditions.
Make sure the lemonade is light
If you use lemonade instead of boiled water to quench your thirst, make sure it's light when you make water. A large piece of lemon with skin can be soaked in 1 liter of water. It can be poured into 3-4 small cups. Generally, it can be brewed 2-3 times. If there is no lemon flavor, it can be replaced with a new one.
In this way, the lemonade is not sour or astringent. It is fragrant and can be drunk without sugar or honey. Its energy can be almost ignored.
Honey and sugar are the best partners
If you put more lemon slices, you need to add sugar or honey to help balance the sour taste.
However, the light sweet lemonade contains about 5% sugar. One cup (200g) of honey water with sugar contains 40 kcal of energy. If you drink two cups, it is equivalent to eating 1 / 4 bowl of rice. Therefore, people who need to control their weight should be limited.
For people with too much gastric acid, it is recommended to make lemonade as light as possible, because a small amount of citric acid is conducive to the repair of gastric mucosa.
Indigestion people, add a thin slice of ginger in light lemon water to drink with meals, which is also good for promoting the secretion of digestive fluid.
There is no sodium and almost no energy in the light lemon water without sugar; it contains potassium, a small amount of vitamin C and a small amount of flavonoids. Therefore, light lemon water is very suitable for daily drinking of chronic patients such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and gout.