10 Health Benefits of Lemons
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9. Lemon Peels Are Healthy Too
The peels and rinds of lemons also have beneficial properties that shouldn’t be ignored. Aside from being a useful flavor-enhancing garnish in desserts and drinks, this part of a lemon also contains high vitamin C concentrations.
The skin of lemons, and other citrus fruits, has shown the potential to fight off the fungal agents that can cause skin infections and can sometimes be resistant to pharmaceutical antifungal medications.11‘Bactericidal Activity Of Lemon Juice and Lemon Derivatives Against Vibrio Cholerae.’ PubMed, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11041258.
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