the other day me and my colleagues were having a debate on lemon. yes, the fruit lemon. the topic was 'lemon is it acidic or alkaline?'. so there we were, six of us sitting on a round table. lets see, there were 3 ppl who agreed lemon is acidic. 1 ppl said lemon is alkaline. 2 were sitting on the fence. there were suppose to be 2 ppl on the alkaline side but towards the last minute, she prefered to sit on the fence because looking at the quantities over at the acidic side, she was having doubts. so there i was at the alkaline side alone. i was suppose to be the person that backed her up since she brought up the topic of 'lemon is alkaline'. so they looked up on wikipedia and there i was half dead being shoot by them. however i still stand strong on 'lemon is alkaline' as wikipedia is not a reliable source.
before this discussion happened, someone actually told me lemon is alkaline. like a typical person who study science from standard 4, we were told lemon is acidic. i actually told the person whatever she said was nonsense because i was confident that lemon is acidic. then i started to googled up because i was curious on the issue being brought up since the fact was already known for a long time that it is acidic. i was surprised on my findings that there were articles that state lemon is alkaline.
you must be very curious now because i say lemon is alkaline. it is like against the fundamental of pH. you always remember lemon is acid, soap is alkaline which makes you pass your standard 4 science paper with flying colours. now i tell you the opposite, you felt like all the science that you had learned all went down the drain. LOL!
no worries. lemon is actually a unique fruit. a fresh lemon when u cut it horizontally from the head, the 1st 30 minutes, it is alkaline but after that it became acidic due to oxidation. lemon juice is no doubt still acidic. dun believe u can put the pH indicater, it will indicate acidic. what is alkaline is lemon water. often we read on detoxification, they will recommend to start the day with lemon water. 1 part of fresh lemon juice with 9 part of warm water. through my read up on this, it is very good for our body. it is good to start up our liver in the morning. all in all it is a good detoxification. it cleanses you. well i dun recommend anyone to follow this but if you do, it is at your own risk. pls dun sue me. hehe. i will like to know the results too. it only apply to fresh lemon. most of our foods are being processed and waxed or being treated with chemicals, so its quite hard to eat healthily nowadays unless u start your own farm or plantation. LOL!! oh dun get mixed up between lemon water and lemonade. they are different. lemon water plus sugar is lemonade. with sugar in it all the benefits were diminished. so no sugar pls. LOL!!
if you are free, you should check out on lemons. a whole lot of stuff it can cure. it can do wonders. LOL! oh yeah because lemon contain not only citric acid but it also contain calcium which contribute to the alkaline pH. nevertheless it also contain a whole bunch of other stuff in it. so feel free to read up. hehe.
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