When life gives you lemons…Kingston gives you lemonade. This yellow, oval fruit is used for culinary and nonculinary purposes throughout the world, primarily for it’s sour juice. The juice in the lemon contains about five to six percent citric acid, which gives the lemon the distinctive sour but refreshing taste. The pulp and rind can also used for cooking and baking.

The exact origin of the lemon remains a mystery, however the genetic origin of the lemon, was reported to be a hybrid between sour orange and citron. It is widely presumed that lemons first appeared in India, northern Burma, and China. In Asia, lemons were known for their antiseptic properties and were used as an antidote for various poisons. They were distributed widely throughout the Arab world and the Mediterranean region between 1000 and 1150AD.

The first real lemon cultivation in Europe began in Genoa in the middle of the 15th century. It was later introduced to the Americas in 1493 when Christopher Columbus brought lemon seeds to Hispaniola along his voyages.

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