limes please

[yanie_daks_D]

hello!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is my first visit in your forum.
can you help me? i want to ask if limes have proteolytic activity like pineapples and papain. pls help me...............

[victor]

Proteolytic???you mean like maing the protein become lysis?
From what I know is lime has a sour taste (low in pH) and this can make some proteins denaturated.
If proteolytic...not only limes..our body also have that kind of substances. Example like peptidase can make a protein become amino-acid...(proteolytic right.. ). Well you can see that lime must have a water substances which can hydrolizes proteins become amino-acids...

[mothorc]

limes have proteolytic but it isn't protease. The break peptide linkage reaction need water and low pH to happen (it cause by citric acid)

[victor]

Not citric acid but Ascorbic acid (vit. C)

[mothorc]

ascorbic acid or citric acid make low pH in lime?

[victor]

Just see the 'acid' word in the 2 examples that you gave... they low the pH..

[MrMistery]

I think he is asking wether it is ascorbic or citric acid that lowers the pH

[Waters2]

i think should be citric acid because more composition inside the lime whickh lower the pH.

[victor]

Not the ascorbic acid?? because almost TV shows said that "lemon is rich of vit.C..(ascorbic acid.. )

[mothorc]

Now to close this topic, we need some real number:
Lime - Nutritional Analysis:
-Citric acid: 4-8% (depend on genus)
-Ascorbic acid: 77mg per 100g ( 0.77%)
Another things are: Protein, lipit, fibre, carbohydrate, Ca, Fe, Mg, P, K, Na, Zn, Cu,Vit C, B1, B2, B3, B6, B5, PP,B12, A, Retinol .(certainly water is the most)