In the situation of the ongoing corona virus epidemic, health experts in the country are recommending to eat more and more vitamin-C. In our country, lemon is considered as the best source of vitamin-C.
So do you throw away the lemon peel after extracting the juice? Once you know how important lemon peel is for your health and skin, you can swear that you will change this habit.
Benefits of eating lemon peel
1. Provides nutrition
Like lemon juice, its peel is rich in vitamins, calcium, fiber, potassium, magnesium, and beta carotene. The fact is that lemon peel can provide about 5 to 10 times more nutrients than juice. About 100 grams of lemon peel contains 134 mg of calcium, 160 mg of potassium, 129 mg of vitamin-C and 10.6g of fiber.
2. Strengthens bones
Vitamin-C and calcium can strengthen your bones and improve bone health. These nutrients in lemon peel also help prevent diseases like inflammatory polyarthritis, osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis.
3. Prevents fungal and bacterial infections
Vitamin-C's antibacterial power can protect you by killing worms and parasites in your gut.
4. Prevents cancer
Similarly, like lemon juice, lemon peel is also rich in citrus bioflavonoids. Which can significantly contribute to reducing your oxidation stress levels. Also what else is there makes the inside of your body alkaline. You may know that cancer cells grow in an acidic environment.
How to eat lemon peel?
Peel a squash, grate it and squeeze the juice. So that you can grind them well. The easiest way to do this is to use an oven to fry the lemon peels at 200 degrees Fahrenheit and then grind the baked peels later. Lemon peel powder can be eaten in a variety of ways. You can mix lemon peel powder in your daily food, drink, organic tea and soup.
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