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KIND · Fruit & Sour

lemon

Citrus limon

Bright, sour citrus.

1CHEMISTRY2USED IN2IN THE JOURNAL
lemon

CHEMISTRY

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The characteristic compounds documented in this ingredient, plus any the library traces to it in a recipe. Not an exhaustive phytochemistry.

C₆H₈O₇
citric acid
C₆H₈O₇

bright lift

USED IN

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No.031
Wine-Style Grape & Mint
a wine's job at the table, no alcohol: grape, mint, and tea
No.033
Harrak Osbao
Levantine lentils and pasta in a sweet-sour pomegranate broth ('he burned his finger')

IN THE JOURNAL

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Note.47
Every lemon and every lime traces back to the same father
Note.45
Most of the world's citric acid has never been near a lemon