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Fantastic and fascinating read. Thanks for posting this. I had no idea that lime juice only contains a fraction of the vitamin C content of lemon juice. I wonde
by gcv 17y ago
Fantastic and fascinating read. Thanks for posting this. I had no idea that lime juice only contains a fraction of the vitamin C content of lemon juice. I wonder how grapefruit fares.
- idlewords 17y agoFresh lime juice actually has something like 2/3 the vitamin C of lemon juice. Grapefruit is comparable to lime. Check out table II: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/OAS/oas_pdf/v18/p36-38.pdf http://digital.library.okstate.edu/OAS/oas_pdf/v18/p36-38.pd... For some reason, the 1918 tests showed fresh lime juice to have a quarter the antiscorbutic activity of lemon juice (when you fed it to guinea pigs, it took four times as much to prevent scurvy). It's possible the vitamin is less bioavailable in limes, but I don't know the research at all. And of course the actual lime juice from navy and merchant ships was much worse than that.