Fresh lemon juice
Energy: ~22 kcal / 100 ml (planning figure - the product label is the final reference)
How this figure was derived
- Read from
- ~22 kcal / 100 ml
- Energy density
- 22 kcal / 100 ml
- Basis
- Per 100 ml — a volume. Applying it to a weight would be wrong.
- Example, at 30 ml
- 22 kcal / 100 ml × 30 ml ÷ 100 = ≈ 7 kcal
A planning figure, not a laboratory analysis. It is here so a recipe can be reasoned about, not so it can be declared on a menu.
Shelf life: Best fresh. Squeezed and strained, it holds one working day refrigerated in a sanitized, dated bottle — discard at close.
Storage: Whole lemons: cool and dry. The day's juice: refrigerated, sealed, dated.
- Lemonade and lemon-mint
- The sour half of mint-lime sparkler and house citrus cordials
- Balancing fruit coolers that lean too sweet
- A squeeze keeps house purées from browning
Wash and sanitize, roll the lemon firmly to loosen the juice, squeeze, and strain out the seeds. Bottle it sanitized and dated in the fridge, for that day only.
Very acidic — frequent exposure can wear tooth enamel; a straw helps. A vitamin C source like the rest of the citrus family.