Lime Essential Oil From Line Zest

As a person who like lime fruits and lime juices, there is one thing about the lime fruit people usually miss. It is the lime oil from the lime zest.

Unless you are someone who is green friendly, you never will know this or you only get an adulteration of the real thing in some cosmetic stores; or it is only a chemical component of the lime oil in any cream, shampoo, oil, nail polish, and so on.

We all think because fruits and vegetables are water soluble, and since these do not contain fats and oils as in most other foods, these are just plain starch and sugars, consisting mostly of vitamins and photonutrient compounds.

However, what is not realized is that parts of fruits and vegetables also contain oils, called essential oils from the green skin or zest. Even the seeds contain oil. Many have not noted this well.

This oils are called essential oils. These are used in many creams, lotions, paints and in some cases, add to foods and drugs.

They do not provide energy but excellent for promoting health benefit. A little or a microscope drop is all that is need to dilute with any other vegetable oil for food. For example, half a teaspoon of lime essential oil is enough to dilute with 50oz of olive oil for dressing your meal. I do not mean you should use all the 50oz at a go. No, 1 tablespoonful of the dilution is enough to dress your plate of salad.

On the other hand, if you take half of the teaspoon of the original line essential oil in the salad, you will react adversely in purging of your intestines. This is a serious minus in misusing the oil. 

Lime oil should always be use in a dilute form. This is the positive side of the oil.

With the exception of vitamin C and C₁ which you can get in eating the fresh lime fruit juice and its white pitch, you get all the other health promoting benefit from the essential lime oils.

Pure substance

I chanced to take part in a chemistry class some years ago. This was in my grammar or secondary school days.

The teacher well noted for his proficiency in teaching chemistry got me and the others on analyzing a pure substance. He said any substance that has a definite composition like water, because it contains only oxygen and hydrogen atoms is to be regard as a pure substance. Any other addition is an impurity and has to be removed. This is what is done to get pure iron from its ore or iron ore.

The defining point is that it should have a definite composition to pass the essence of a pure substance. This definite composition can only contain two, three or more element. It can even be a single entity like oxygen.

So if an element has an extra part it is not pure as seen in the iron ore, which consists of iron and dust particles (earth).

To get the real deal, pure lime oil will come from the lime fruit zest citrus aurantifolia, especially the ones from organic farms and gardens. The lime fruit from inorganic farms is polluted with chemicals, pesticides and insecticides; and a not very suitable for the lime essential oil production.

This citrus aurantifolia is the genus species from which all pure lime oil is made otherwise known as lime essential oil.

It is the green rind of the fruit that provides the oil.

So what are the benefits of the lime oil?

All the health and medicinal benefits you get in eating the lime fruit whole, you get also in the oil, except vitamin C and its subgroup of C_1.

If you have been following my talks on lime fruits and its juices so far, I am sure you will not miss the health promoting goodness of the lime oil. I think you only need a summary here.

The oil is antiseptic, astringent, disinfectant, restorative and antiviral. It is also aperitif and bactericidal.

There are two methods to get the oil: cold compression and steam distillation.

Each method has its value but the former delivers better dividends. You get all the essence of the lime fruits, via the lime oil from compressing the green rinds.

Another rather homemade method is infusion of the green lime fruit rinds in a pure vegetable oil like virgin olive oil or pure peanut oil.

Put 20cl of the vegetable oil in a saucepan and heat this for 10 to 15 minutes over moderate or low heat, that is at a temperature that the oil will not burnt your finger tip.

Remove and put the fresh green rinds into the warm oil in the sauce pan. Cover and allow to stand for over 3 hours. You can leave it overnight and filter the oil off into a clean container with an air tight seal.

If however, you get the commercial product, these are available in the market, do dilute these with other oils like olive oil, lavender oil, or sage oil, or cocoa nut oil. 

Undiluted pure lime oil is a very strong astringent, and can be a health risk to all persons including children. So you have to blend it in a dilute form. 

One major characteristic of the pure lime oil is that it is photosensitive. Their usually reacts to ultraviolet rays, light and radiation energy from the sun and other sources.

A safe practice is to use it in the night time on skin or if you are not going nowhere in the day time. You remain indoors all the time.

I always use a tiny drop of the lime essential oil in dilute form to rob on my hairs and scalp two times in the week. I also take a tiny drop in some of my meals for its promoting digestion and containing respiratory issues.

To your good health!

Lime Oil

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Welcome To Greens4Food Blog

Welcome to green4foods blog.

It is all about getting the best out of the green foods or raw foods we see in nature without destroying its many natural benefits. I mean we should not cook or fried any fruits. Green leafy vegetables if not cooked half done must be washed with clean warm water.

I think you understand the issue well. When I say green, I do not limit myself to fruits and vegetables only in a technical or scientific sense. Personally, I will include birds, animals and marine spices that breed in their natural and friendly premise.

Many of us wash our greens in fresh cool water because these came from inorganic farms. Yes, these are clean protected from virus but are loaded with insecticides and chemicals used as fertilizers.

You see this is a fast tract age. Whatever one needs can be gotten at the push of a button; or you warmed a can of soup in a micro oven, then opened it and you are done.

We can do the same thing by unpacking noodles, beef-rice, pork chop and what you have in a pot and warm same in the oven and it is done.

We are told this ready to eat meals are much cleaner, healthier, fortify with multivitamin and mineral matters.

Some of these convenience foods were even said to be fortify with vitamins and mineral matters from sea weeds as if that obtained from the synthetic process is not enough.

I can even imagine one day or some days vitamins and minerals from the moon can be super fortified with these convenience foods because life, it is said is being discovered there or in mars?

Yes, even fruits and vegetables one can easily get in a canned form.

What about potato chips or pop-corn? It all goes with a bottled fruit juice or mineral drink.

These are very delicious and palatable with all its promised goodness of health.

Yes, they are enriched or rather fortified with vitamins and minerals. Well by taking both the chips and drinks you get more than is expect of you, right?

Nevertheless, I can say here that all the promise of the food being fortify is a marketing and promotional strategy employ by the manufacturing company.

Do the real natural things go into these products? This is hardly the case.

If you read label on the products well, you will realize that the real juice are not there 85%, but flavors were the only main ingredients in these items.

Where it says for the contents preservatives, lime flavor, vitamin C, etc these are all synthetics chemicals.

Glaring advertising preparation of the drinks do not contained the real fruit juices as seen on television.

But you can get 100% fruit juice-real lime, lemon or orange juice or any other fruit juices at a princely price in most good wine stores.

Once more, to get the real thing, you will force yourself out to buy it at a local vegetable or fruit market. You get value for your money and health for getting them in their natural complex state.

This is the state in which green or raw foods are in a balanced state. Here their retained all their goodness, vitamin, mineral matters or photochemicals.

I can hardly believe it that process foods are more digestible than complex ones.

Before the introduction of refined foods, mankind has been eating from nature in its green or raw states for decades without much ill-health. And to say now that refined foods or convenience foods have better health values than the natural green foods is misinformation.

This is an absurd thinking. The inventors of this school are more interested in money than your health or anything else.

Okay, grant the fact some truths can be realize in this test, it pose some risk in promoting ill-health.

With the introduction of machines, the refining process takes on a new dimension.

 Now, nearly every foodstuff including fruits and vegetables can be refined; and they do have an eye opening results in our body. All these are momentary leaving loads of sickness that doctors cannot now control.

They are shook by the many results seen in eating unwholesome foods.

Now health workers including doctors and dieticians are telling us to eat more of natural food source than the convenience foods. 

They say you should take 13 servings of fruits and vegetables daily.

Why is this so you may query. My answer is to dissolve and dislodge the ill effect done by the many refined foods you have taken into your body. What you eat is what you are, or you become. You eat sickness, you become sick. You eat health, you become healthy, right? You should think of it this way.

Medical research has shown that persons who eat a lot of natural foods in their raw complex states including fruits and vegetables more matters were more healthier than those who subsists on all refined foods. The former groups were free of heart disease and its related ailments including diabetes, high blood pressure and stroke. The research carried a period of 17 years.

In this blog, I will high light foods that will benefit every person in more than one way including kids and elder persons; the history, nature, benefits and medicinal use if any. Much more than this, it will inform and educate.

Above all else, I will welcome all comments and suggestions gladly. It is a way of sharing much information on questions likely to arise.

More so, include some greens every day in all your meals or snack an orange or a berry.

To your good health!

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