The Agricultural Importance of Lemon in Indonesia

For the people of Indonesia, especially the people of Aceh, there is one plant that is often planted in their home grounds, namely 'Jeruk Nipis plant'. For the people of Aceh, the fruit is especially needed by people in the area itself which is used for flavoring foods that are incomplete if fruit is not included. Fruit that is very familiar with the Community is generally used as a complement while increasing the taste of various foods, such as 'Keu'ueng Asam' 'Soto' and other foods. Besides being made as a flavoring, it is also made as an anticipation of cholesterol disease, and is also very needed by the community because of its sour and fresh aroma and taste. The essence of the fruit taken from this fruit is squeezing lime juice which is often used as a fishy odor remover in fish before being cooked into a side dish on food. Then besides all that, not many people know that lime has a myriad of benefits for the human body itself. Lime is very different from the Orange Plant both in terms of shape and taste, each of which clearly gets a difference even though it looks at first glance almost equal. Orange plants have many types, one of which is lime. This fruit is different from oranges which are usually used as desserts, because lime is not eaten this way. This orange is more often mixed into food to make it tastier or made into fresh drinks rather than being eaten directly like lime in general.

The taste produced by the lime feels acidity and is also very fresh so it can remove the oil attached to the human throat. If we look at the opinions of health experts about this one fruit, it turns out they say that, Oranges that have the Latin name Citrus aurantifolia turned out to have many beautiful names in various regions in Indonesia, such as kelangsa, orange pecel, orange alit, or lemur nepi in various regions in Indonesia. Unfortunately, many people still mistakenly call lime with lemon or lemon. In fact, lime and lemon are different types of oranges from lime. If it's still young, it's green if it's ripe yellow If you look at the shape of the fruit, it almost resembles other ordinary limes, but there are differences because lime has a rounder shape than a lemon in general, which is slightly oval with a slightly sticky tip or has a bulge on its tail. Another difference he has is that the lime is bright green when it is young and when it is ripe it will be yellow, while the lemon is generally bright yellow. Although the color of lime can turn yellow, people usually tend to use this fruit when the color is still green. Although sometimes people squeeze it when it's ripe with yellow. There is a difference in taste in this fruit when it is young (green), it tastes very sour and also fresh, but if it is ripe (yellow) the taste of acidity has diminished and is slightly bitter. The advantages of lime are very much in addition to anticipating fat in the blood. It is also capable of removing fishy odor in animal flesh. Based on the opinion of health experts that lime contains several substances or other nutrients such as:

1. Makronutrien
2. Mineral
3. Vitamins and antioxidants

Apart from being used as an ingredient in removing fishy odor in animal flesh, it turns out that this fruit serves to dissolve fat in the blood in the body, as well as the body's fluid needs in humans for water, water also functions to remove toxic substances that settle in the body while supporting the availability of energy for activities. Likewise with lime it will help body ions or substances that will remove toxins in a person's body. So many benefits of this one fruit, it is not surprising that the people of Aceh in particular always need lime when cooking food.