Lemon

Name	Lemon
Peak season	year-round
Uses	drinks, ingredient for other food, hand-fruit
Vegetation	tree
Scientific Name	Citrus aurantifolia, Limon, and others
Spanish Name	limón

The bitter taste of lemon is often used to enrich the taste of drinks or of other food like fish. The same fruit can be combined with water, some sugar and a little bit of salt to produce lemonade. Lemons are citrus fruit and therefore contain high levels of vitamin C and minerals like calcium. Lemons are green at first, and they turn yellow when they ripen.

There is one lemon species that is much sweeter than regular lemons. This variant, called sweet lemon, can be peeled and eaten by itself like mandarin oranges. It is larger than regular lemons (about the size of an orange), and they are only available around the end of the year, therefore often being consumed during the Nicaraguan December celebrations.

The lemon tree is a medium-sized tree that has many branches with spines. Generally, lemon trees produce fruits almost year-round.