How it's used
Used in dressings, teas, marinades, and desserts.
Fruits
lemon
Citrus fruit high in vitamin C, with sour and aromatic juice.
- Usual recipe measure
- Usually measured in g
- Recipes using this ingredient
- 6 recipes shown
Your kitchen
Do you usually keep this?
EatMacroPlant remembers the habit, not an exact stock count. Mark it running low when it should return to the next shopping list.
In the kitchen
Substitutes
Pairs well with
Boosts absorption of iron from plant-based sources.
Try it in the kitchen
Recipes that use lemon
MealEuropean
Apple Rye Breakfast Bars
Rustic apple-rye breakfast bars with dried figs, oats, wheat germ, a silken-tofu yogurt batter, walnuts, pumpkin seeds and thin apple slices baked into the top.
Open recipeMealEuropean
Swiss Bircher Protein Jar
A Swiss-inspired overnight Bircher jar with grated apple, a silky tofu-yogurt base, oats, wheat germ, flax, hemp, raspberries, toasted walnuts and pumpkin seeds.
Open recipeMealAfrican
Ful Medames Breakfast Pot
A make-ahead Egyptian-style fava bean breakfast pot with cumin, lemon, tahini, parsley, tomato, cucumber, flatbread and a sesame-pumpkin crunch.
Open recipeMealMiddle Eastern
Golden Garden Mutabaq
Three crisp puff-pastry mutabaq-inspired parcels filled with white beans, tofu, spinach, sun-dried tomato and olives, with sharp lemon-tahini yogurt.
Open recipeMealMediterranean
Socca Breakfast Stack
A savoury Mediterranean breakfast stack of chickpea socca pancakes layered with tomato-white-bean ragΓΉ, spinach, olives, basil and yogurt-tahini sauce.
Open recipeMealGlobal
Umami Bean Toast
A post-exercise breakfast β warm umami-forward bean mash on wholemeal toast, topped with blistered spiced tomato, crispy chickpeas, pumpkin seeds and sumac.
Open recipeNutrition notebook
What 100 g contributes
Nutrition summary
At a glance
Higher inVitamin C
Calories
30kcal
5% cal
Protein
0.3g
88% cal
Carbs
6.6g
7% cal
Fat
0.2g
Small numbers, big impact
Everyday essentials
Fibre0.30g
Vitamin B120.00ΞΌg
Vitamin D0.00ΞΌg
Iodine0.00ΞΌg
Iron0.08mg
Zinc0.05mg
Calcium6.00mg
Nutrition values are estimates and can vary with variety, brand, cooking method and water content.