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Limes have higher contents of sugars and acids than lemons do. [1] Lime juice may be squeezed from fresh limes, or purchased in bottles in both unsweetened and sweetened varieties. Lime juice is used to make limeade, and as an ingredient (typically as sour mix) in many cocktails.
Since Billboard and Nielsen SoundScan are inconsistent with the definition of Latin music (Billboard states that the US Latin Digital Songs chart only ranks Spanish-language songs [114] but the English-language song "Conga" was ranked on the 2016 US Latin Digital Songs year-end chart), [115] some Spanglish songs primarily sung in English were excluded from the table above.
Lemons were most likely first grown in northeast India. [7] The origin of the word lemon may be Middle Eastern. [7] The word draws from the Old French limon, then Italian limone, from the Arabic ليمون laymūn or līmūn, and from the Persian لیمو līmūn, a generic term for citrus fruit, which is a cognate of Sanskrit (nimbū, 'lime'). [8]
Zanthoxylum fagara or wild lime, is a species of flowering plant that—despite its name—is not part of the genus Citrus with real limes and other fruit, but is a close cousin in the larger citrus family, Rutaceae. It is more closely related to Sichuan pepper.
Mediterranean sweet lemon Sweet lemon Sweet lime Citrus limetta (C. medica × C. × aurantium) Citrus limetta, alternatively considered to be a cultivar of Citrus limon, C. limon 'Limetta', is a species of citrus, commonly known as mousami, musami, sweet lime, sweet lemon, and sweet limetta, it is a member of the sweet lemons. It is small and ...
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Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean.
A recent genomic analysis of several species commonly called "lemons" or "limes" revealed that the various individual lumias have different genetic backgrounds. The 'Hybride Fourny' was found to be an F1 hybrid of a citron-pomelo cross, while the 'Jaffa lemon' was a more complex cross between the two species, perhaps an F2 hybrid.