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Why Buy Fresh Organic Lemon Leaves from California?
Organic lemon leaves, freshly picked from lemon trees in California Orchard, have many delicious healing properties and health benefits and many ways to enjoy them and incorporate them into your life.
How to Make Organic Lemon Leaf Tea?
Fresh lemon leaves have a delicate flavor which tastes wonderfully sweet and zesty in a hot nourishing cup of herbal tea. To prepare fresh lemon leaf tea:
- Simply rinse the fresh lemon leaves under cold water to remove any stray dirt or particles.
- Put the leaves into the pot of hot water or pour hot water over the leaves.
- Let the leaves infuse the water for 5-10 minutes.
- Use less or more of fresh lemon leaves can be used for gentler or stronger flavor.
- Sweeten with raw unfiltered California honey to taste.
Here is a great example on how to make easy lemon leaves tea. For a fun twist, you can also experiment with making lemon leaf soda, which is also a probiotic. Lemon leaf can be used in tea alone or in combination with other plants such as fresh rosemary or thyme.
How to Use Fresh Lemon Leaves in Cooking and Baking?
Fresh organic lemon leaves are widely used for cooking applications such as grilling or sautéing. Like any herb, fresh lemon leaves are much more aromatic compared to dry options.
Fresh organic lemon leaves can be wrapped around seafood and meats and can be roasted, steamed, or grilled.
They can also be used to flavor kabobs, used in curries, or baked goods.
Lemon leaves can be used as a garnish for desserts such as lemon cakes and they can also be used as a mold to make chocolate leaves.
Lemon leaves pair well with fresh seafood, oysters, fresh anchovy fillets, pork, chicken, mint, parsley, basil, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, and chopped pistachios.
On the island of Sicily, where there are many lemon orchards, they make the well-known dish polpette, which are meatballs wrapped in lemon leaves and baked.
Along the Amalfi coast, scamorza affumicata, or smoked mozzarella is grilled between lemon leaves to create a fragrant, soft, and oozing cheese and served as an appetizer or side dish.
Fresh tender lemon leaves can be added to hot cider, mulled wine, or hot toddies. You can even infuse fresh organic lemon leaves in vinegar or olive oil.
Why Buy Fresh Lemon Leaves?
It is completely fine to choose dried versions for the majority of herbs, but most chefs and herbalists would agree that most herbs are better tasting and more effective medicinally when they are fresh and organic. Depending on the harvesting and drying process, as well as storage time and conditions prior to use, the nutritional and medicinal properties of the herb might be reduced or destroyed. The essential oils and medicinal components of many herbs are at peak levels when the herb is fresh rather than dried. For many herbalists the freshness of the harvested herbs is critical for their formulas.
Why Buy Organic Lemon Leaves?
Organic herbs are grown without chemicals and preservatives and are not fumigated or irradiated. Zava Ranch fresh organic lemon leaves are harvested of the trees in our California orchard using sustainable and ethical practices.
Why Buy Zava Ranch Lemon Leaves?
At Zava Ranch we go a step beyond organic. Organic herbs, even when “Certified Organic” are often still sprayed with various chemicals that have been approved for organic use. Our products grow naturally with no assistance from humans.
California Organic Lemon Leaves from Zava Ranch are unwaxed and 100% unsprayed:
We do not spray or apply any kind of synthetic or chemical pesticides, fungicides, or nutrients/fertilizers to our organic lemon trees or anything we grow on our land.
Proven Health Benefits of Fresh Organic Lemon Leaves:
Lemon leaves are anti-inflammatory and are high in vitamin C and vitamin P, meaning they can help your body fight infections strengthen blood vessels. Lemon leaves contain many substances that are beneficial to internal organs, such as flavonoids, coumarins and many acidic components.
Lemon leaves have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, and can eliminate the damage of viruses and bacteria to human internal organs and reduce the risk of diseases.
If you’ve got a sore throat or cramps, a yummy warm cup of lemon leaf tea should help ease the pain.
Benefits of fresh lemon leaf tea include sedative and antispasmodic properties, thus helping in relieving the symptoms of disorders such as insomnia, nervousness and palpitation.
Fresh lemon leaves with hot water can also reduce the effect of a migraine headache and asthma.
Lemon leaf tea is also known for cleansing the body while boosting the immune system, among other benefits.
In addition, lemon leaves can also assist in the treatment of cough, bloating, diarrhea and other diseases.
Zava Ranch – Ethical and Sustainable Operation:
We operate under conservation and environmental health initiatives. We utilize drip irrigation and recyclable or reusable packaging whenever possible, and heavily invest in sustainable technology, such as solar energy.
