Lime juice

It's no secret that along with lemons, small citrus fruits with dark green peels, called limes, are also equally popular. They are used in many recipes for preparing national dishes of a large number of world cuisines.

These fruits can be used completely, that is, not only juicy flesh is used, but also zest, as well as lime juice, which gives a refreshing, sour taste to many eaters, while reviving them and making them more attractive and appetising.

In addition to gastronomic value, numerous useful properties of llama juice are also known, in particular the ability to improve digestive processes, as well as act as an excellent natural preventive agent in the fight against many colds. In addition, lime juice contains a lot of ascorbic acid, as well as other vitamins and minerals that are vital for the human body.

People with reduced and normal acidity levels may consume pure lime juice, however most prefer to drink it diluted. A combination of lime juice with other fruit juices, for example, strawberry or blueberry, is considered tasty and useful. Lovers of rich and simultaneously refreshing soft drinks prefer this juice with grapefruit, adding pre-crushed ginger root to the cocktail for special benefit.

Quite often lime juice is also used to make alcoholic cocktails. The most common and very popular are the low-alcohol drinks Mojito (it includes not only juice, but also slices of fresh lime), Margarita (based on silver tequila and Cuanto liqueur), as well as Cosmopolitan, whose main ingredients are vodka, Cuanto liqueur and cranberry juice. It is clear that you cannot do without lime juice here.

In addition to various drinks, lime juice is successfully used in the preparation of numerous dishes: from salad dressings to baking. Lime juice prevents avocados, bananas, mangoes, apples from blackening peeled potatoes and champignons. Only a couple of drops of this liquid product, when added to the water in which the cabbage is boiled, will deprive the finished dish of a specific cabbage smell and help the product not to lose its bright color.

Lime and its juice are widespread in Mexican and Thai cuisines. It has a less bitter taste than lemons, but a greater aroma. If you spray some freshly dispensed lime juice onto slices of pineapple, papaya or mango, the aroma of these fruits will intensify several times. This product is especially good in combination with salmon, as well as light fragrant dishes of Thai cuisine.