“Eat your lime peels,” my Irish-Catholic Midwestern grandmammy used to admonish me from behind a veil of cigarette smoke at the lunch table after Mass. This was a simpler time, when adults were still allowed to expose children to secondhand smoke without CPS getting called.
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And eat my lime peels, I did, Oh My Brothers, for I knew well that, if I protested, out would come the rod with the Passion of the Christ, and it would be my own personal Angela’s Ashes right there in a dingy Topeka, Kansas basement.
Bless her heart, it appears that she knew of what she spoke.
Nature hides the good stuff in the damnedest places.
“Citrus fruit [peels], which are generally discarded as waste in the environment, can act as potential nutraceutical resources,” per the Journal of the Saudi Society of Agricultural Sciences.
So why toss them out?
Via an extensive literature review published in Nutrients:
“Citrus [polymethoxylated flavones], such as nobiletin and tangeretin, exerted beneficial effects on cognitive function in numerous experimental models—e.g., AD, Parkinson’s disease, and cardiovascular dementia by modulating pathological features such as Aβ/tau pathology, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation and improving synaptic plasticity in several experimental models. Besides, flavanones such as hesperidin, naringin, and narirutin exerted neuroprotection in several neurodegenerative disorder models…
A recent study documented the synergistic effects of citrus peel powder and perilla seed oil (PO) on cognition. PO is rich in α-linolenic acid (ALA) and improves cognitive function and mental health in healthy and older adults…
Preclinical studies indicated that flavanones, such as hesperidin and narirutin, improve cognitive impairments induced by oxidative stress, inflammation, and ischemia. These flavanones have also been reported to improve cognitive function through various mechanisms, including increasing BDNF levels and improving neurological function…
A prospective cohort study including 82,643 women without a diagnosis of depression from the NHS (53–80 years old) and the NHSII (36–55 years old) showed an inverse correlation between the development of depression and citrus consumption. Moreover, maximum flavanone consumption (>64.2 mg/day) markedly reduced the risk of depression (by 10%). Thus, high flavonoid intake may reduce the risk of depression…
This review explored the effects of citrus components on brain health and related functions. Numerous clinical and epidemiological studies have demonstrated the benefits of acute and chronic consumption of citrus components on cognitive functions for healthy or preclinical individuals and patients. Another great advantage of citrus flavonoids is their safety. Indeed, high-dose and chronic intake of citrus peels and extracts have no serious adverse effects* on humans or animals.”
*How many “side effects may include stroke and spontaneous limb growth from head” pharmaceutical drugs can be honestly said to “have no serious adverse effects”?
Why the peels; why not just drink the juice? Because “the citrus fruit peel flavedo (outer layer) and the albedo contain more flavonoids than the juice sacs,” notes Antioxidants.
The aptly named limonene, a terpene found in limes, is also great for heart health — which may, in part, explain its brain benefits, as proper blood flow is necessary for optimal brain function.
Via The European Journal of Pharmacology:
“In the preventive treatment, d-limonene decreased the size of white and brown adipocytes, lowered serum triglyceride (TG) and fasting blood glucose levels, and prevented liver lipid accumulations in high-fat diet-fed C57BL/6 mice. In the therapeutic treatment, d-limonene reduced serum TG, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-c) and fasting blood glucose levels and glucose tolerance, and increased serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) in obese mice.”
So my unsolicited advice is to get your fat ass peeling.
As far as practical application of the above knowledge, for a long while until recently I just chewed the peels until my molars ground them into swallowable bits — an exercise in masochism and a true test of my gag reflex.
More recently, I’ve begun using a cheese grater, which works wonders with some elbow grease.
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Why not blend the entire lemon it with blueberries and suchlike to make a so-called smoothie? Honey increases taste as well.
Wow, I make exactly that smoothie most mornings! One whole lemon, raw honey, frozen blueberries, strawberries, mango, MCT oil, collagen, raw milk, yeast flakes, and home-made kefir. I’m 82 and still upright.
Essential oils are also loaded with limonene, and it’s cheap. Orange and grapefruit oils have more limonene than lemon and lime. Lime has the least. My intuition was right. I was putting a couple drops in water. It’s very powerful. One drop for a 16 ounce water. There is a recipe to make your own Hydoxychloroquine. It’s made from grapefruit and lemon peels simmered.
I always imagined Tanqueray and tonic with lime was a gift from God for my benefit. Confirmation feels so “spiritual.”
No!!! It’s Tito’s® with Schweppes® soda & two lime slices.
Skip the tonic and I’m right there with you, H R
Before the yids tortured and killed all the Healers in Europe calling them witches, Europeans used all natural healing methods.
The yids killed the healers and began what is now modern medicine.
They yids got rid of all natural methods and natural herbs and prayer in healing.
They stopped all the fasting and cleansing from poisons to heal.
They replaced it all with poisons as medicines.
Everywhere else on the earth the people retained their natural healing methods.
It is all typical false history that yids were the victims of the inquisitions.
They also stole all the land and wealth from the so called “witches”.
It was the yids who use black magic and worship Satan.
Now with their control of medicine and banking because you worship them, the Antichrist, you are about to regret that bad choice for eternity.
Never believe or trust the devil.
Now they have control of the entire world, and everything you eat in the future will be poisoned, and kill you and all the water will be poisoned as well, because that is what they have done to make you their slaves, all through history.
Parasites and poisons make you sick.
The yids know that and they keep their secrets so they can make more money.
Breast feeding a child is all they need for a lifetime of immunity.
Vaccines do not prevent disease they cause disease.
Every high Freemason knows that and they would NEVER use your medical system or eat and drink what you do.
Hear! Hear!
I make a great candy out of lime slices. After slicing and removing the seeds (keep the rind attached), place the slices in simmering sugar water and boil for about 5 minutes (1 cup sugar, 1 cup water). When finished, place them on paper towels to soak up the excess liquid, then dry them in a food dryer for about 2 hours at 140 degrees. When dry, press the slices into granulated sugar and leave them out for your children or grandchildren. They’ll disappear fast. All citrus is great when prepared like this.
Use the leftover sugar water for flavoring in carbonated mineral water. Makes the best soda you’ll ever have.
What else is on those peels?? pesticides?
And petroleum based shelf life extenders and fungicides .
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Apeel. Bill Gates.
All you need to know…and this guy is advising you eat it.
Remember his name.
If you muddle the skins heavily with mint, rum, sugar, and club soda, you get the benefit of a mojito as well.
Unless you know where it comes from, you are probably ingesting more ag chemicals than it is worth.
I wasn’t aware that limes grew in Ireland.
Can you smoke them?
I use lemon & lime “zest” in cooking. Use a fine grater and add a tablespoonful to whatever you’re making for a nice pop of flavor. Fruit picked fresh from my own trees, no pesticides. Happy to learn some new helpful information this Monday morning.
You can not eat lime peels or the skin of anything bought in the Grocery Store as they have all been coated with a Bill Gates concoction that is impossible to wash off.
If you did not make it or grow it, you have know way of knowing what is in it or on it.
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