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Lemon

Lemon is a fruit. Cooks use the fruit and skin for baking, garnishing, preserving, and seasoning.

  • Plant-based

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Fruit
Part used
Fruit, skin
Family
Rutaceae
Cooked most in
Europe, Africa, Asia
Top country
Spain
Lemon, whole

Photo: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use lemon

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Garnish
  • Preserve
  • Season

Preparing it

Grate the outer peel to make zest.

Shopping

Choosing and storing lemon

Availability
Supermarkets

Nutrition

What 100 g of lemon holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 8%Fat 2%Carbohydrate 90%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of lemon, raw
Energy47 kcal · 197 kJ
Protein1.5 g
Fat0.3 g
of which saturated0.04 g
Carbohydrate16 g
of which sugars4.2 g
Fibre11 g
Sodium6 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of lemon, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium160 mg
Calcium134 mg
Iron0.8 mg
Magnesium15 mg
Zinc0.25 mg
Vitamin C129 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)3 µg
Folate13 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 167749), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where lemon is cooked

6 dishes in the catalogue use lemon. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list lemon among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1400s · Italy

    Substantial European cultivation began in Genoa in the 15th century.

  2. 1493 · Caribbean

    Columbus brought lemon seeds to Hispaniola in 1493.

On the table

Dishes made with lemon

3 of the 6 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Panada

    Indonesia

  • Tarta de Santiago

    Spain

  • Spanakorizo

    Greece

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include lemon.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: lemon in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: eggs, fish, milk, molluscs, sulphites, crustaceans.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Alcohol
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

Made from it
lemon juice

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What lemon is called

Names in 101 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    limón · limon

  • French

    citron

  • Italian

    limone · Citrus × limon

  • Portuguese

    limão

  • German

    Zitrone · Limone

  • Dutch

    citroen

  • Greek

    λεμόνι

  • Turkish

    Limon

  • Russian

    лимон · лимон (плод) · цитрон

  • Polish

    cytryna

  • Arabic

    ليمون

  • Hebrew

    לימון

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  • Albanian

    limon

  • Aragonese

    limón

  • Armenian

    լիմոն

  • Aromanian

    Limońiu

  • Asturian

    llimón · llimonal · Citrus limon

  • Azerbaijani

    Limon

  • Bangla

    লেবু

  • Basque

    limoi

  • Belarusian

    лімон

  • Bislama

    Lemon

  • Breton

    sitroñs · sitron

  • Bulgarian

    лимон

  • Burmese

    သံပယိုသီး

  • Catalan

    llimona · llimon · llima

  • Chinese

    檸檬 · 檸檬果

  • Crimean Tatar (Romania)

    limon

  • Czech

    citron

  • Danish

    citron

  • eml

    limon

  • Esperanto

    citrono · limono

  • Estonian

    sidrun

  • Finnish

    sitruuna

  • Fon

    Klé

  • Galician

    limón · Citrus limon

  • Georgian

    ლიმონი

  • Haitian Creole

    sitron

  • Hindi

    नींबू

  • Hungarian

    citrom

  • Indonesian

    lemon

  • Japanese

    レモン · 檸檬 · 檸檬の実

  • Kashubian

    cytróna

  • Kongo

    Dilala ya ngayi

  • Korean

    레몬

  • Kurdish (Latin)

    lîmon

  • Ladino

    limon

  • Latin

    Citrus × limon

  • Ligurian

    limon

  • Low German

    Sitroon

  • Low Saxon

    zitroun

  • Lower Sorbian

    citrona

  • Macedonian

    лимон

  • Malagasy

    voasarimakirana · tsôha fôhy · voasary makirana · tsôha matsiko

  • Malayalam

    ചെറുനാരങ്ങ · നാരങ്ങ

  • Maltese

    lumija

  • Manipuri

    ꯆꯝꯄ꯭ꯔꯥ

  • Māori

    rēmana

  • Marathi

    लिंबू

  • mcn

    léémúlnà

  • Mongolian

    нимбэг

  • Moroccan Arabic

    حامض · سيطرون

  • Mossi

    Lembur-miisga

  • Navajo

    Chʼil łitsooí díkʼǫ́zhígíí

  • Neapolitan

    limone

  • Nepali

    कागती

  • Northern Frisian

    Sitroon

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    sitron · citron

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    sitron

  • Novial

    limone

  • Occitan

    citron

  • Odia

    ଲେମ୍ବୂ

  • Pashto

    ليمو

  • Picard

    limon

  • Piedmontese

    limon

  • Romanian

    lămâie · lămîie

  • Rusyn

    Цітрон

  • Sardinian

    limone

  • Shan

    မၢၵ်ႇဢိုၼ်ႈ

  • Sicilian

    lumiuni · limuni

  • Silesian

    cytrōna

  • Slovak

    Citrón

  • Slovenian

    limona · citrona

  • Swahili

    Limau

  • Swedish

    citron

  • syl

    ꠟꠦꠝ꠆ꠛꠥ

  • Tajik

    лимӯ

  • Talysh

    Limo

  • Tatar

    лимун · лимон

  • Tumbuka

    Zobala

  • Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)

    قارص

  • Tunisian Arabic (Latin)

    9àrec

  • Udmurt

    Лимон

  • Ukrainian

    лимон

  • Upper Sorbian

    citrona · citrony · limona · limony

  • Uzbek

    Limon

  • Venetian

    limon · Citrus × limon

  • Võro

    Tsitron

  • Walloon

    Limon

  • West Flemish

    Citroen

  • Western Frisian

    sitroen

  • Western Mari

    Лимон

  • Zhuang

    Makningzmungx

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q1093742

Photos

Photo: Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons