Caviar lime 

Have you ever heard the name “Caviar Lime”? Even if you do not know this fruit by this name, do not worry. Because Caviar lime is known as various names across the world.

These names are Australian Finger Lime, Finger Lime, Native Finger Lime, Queensland Finger, and Sauvage Lime. Caviar lime is a fruit that is similar to the lime outside. But it is different from the inside and the taste.

Caviar lime has a unique taste. The scientific name of Caviar lime is Citrus australasica and it belongs to the Rutaceae family. Rutaceae family has all citrus fruit members. Also, when considering the origin of Caviar lime, it native to the Lowland subtropical rain forest, New South Wales located in Australia as well as the rainforest in the coastal border region of Queensland.

1.Appearance and taste of Caviar Lime 

Caviar lime is an amazing fruit and you can easily identify them due to its color range. Their colors vary from green to pinkish red to reddish-black. Caviar lime’s flesh colors are green, yellow, or pinkish-red. If you touch or see it before, you may remember, it is slightly rough and thin.

Caviar lime has a unique taste. it is tart and has some astringency with bitterness. Sometimes feel, this taste is similar to the taste of lemon or lime. This taste is much similar to Mexican lime.

2.Season of Caviar lime

Generally, Caviar lime is seasonal, gives harvest from March to May. Depending on the variety and cultivar it can be varied. But in California, the main fruiting season is November to December. Mature Caviar lime trees take up to 8 months for a Caviar lime fruit to ripen.  

3.How to use/eat Caviar lime 

• Cooking Caviar Lime

1. Dessert Cream – Caviar lime adds an amazing flavor to your dessert cream. And also, it can use for your desserts such as cookies, cakes, cream puffs, ice cream, and cheesecake.
2. Ceviche – Caviar lime can be used to add fresh citrus juices. It gives a delightful flavor to this seafood dish.
3. Finishing touches – the amazing unique citrus flavor of Caviar lime give a delightful flavor to the grilled chicken, barbequed oysters, shrimp, lobster, and hello scallop recipes.
4. Caviar lime use to produce marmalade and pickles
5. Caviar lime uses to prepare jams and sauces.

6. Caviar lime adds flavor to salads.

1. Finally, you can use Caviar lime as a substitute for lime or lemon. You can use Caviar lime whatever lemon and lime are used.

• Drinking Caviar lime     

  

1. Cocktails and spirits – Caviar lime pearls add a delicious flavor to delicate cocktails. Also, it is adding wonderful texture and bitter freshness experience to a lot of cocktail and spirits recipes such as martinis, gin fizz, margaritas, and mojitos.
2. Juice – if you add the pulp of Caviar lime to your fresh juice, definitely you can experience a delicious flavor from your fresh juice. By adding pearls of Caviar lime to the fresh juice that is made by strawberry, ginger, watermelon, cucumber, and mango.
3. Water – you can add a few pearls of Caviar lime into your bottle of water. It tends you to drink water constantly.

4.How you identify the Caviar lime plant 

• Plant description 

When considering other trees, the Caviar lime plant is medium to large in size and it grows up to around 2-7 m (6 ft. 7in – 23 ft. 0 in). And the spine of this tree reaches up to about 25mm long. This plant can see mostly in dry and subtropical lowlands as well as tropical and subtropical rainforest communities.

This plant grows properly in deep loamy soils. Also, they need adequate irrigation. Furthermore, this plant demands slightly acidic soil. And not only that but also nutrients rich soil with a high level of organic matter.

• Leaves of Caviar lime plant 

The caviar lime plant has small and globous leaves. These leaves are more or less rhombic or obovate to elliptic. Its size is 1-5 cm long and 3–25 mm wide.

• Flower of Caviar lime plant 

Flowers of Caviar lime is white-pink in color. The main blooming season starts in February and ends in April. you can see flower buds in pink color and it has a short peduncle, 1-3 mm long. The flower of Caviar lime can be recognized as a bisexual flower and it has beautiful white color oblong petals, about 6-9 mm. In addition to that, it has white color filaments and yellow color anthers.

5.Nutrients contain in Caviar lime

1. Vitamin C
2. Vitamin E
3. Vitamin A
4. Potassium
5. Iron
6. Calcium
7. Calories
8. Sodium
9. Carbs
10. Fiber

6.Health benefits of Caviar lime

1.Develop immunity to face infections

Caviar lime contains vitamin C. vitamin C helps to strengthen the immune system of the human body. If you have a good immune system, it protects your body from bacteria and virus attacks.

 2.Delayed Aging of the skin

Here also vitamin C act as in another way to give health benefit to you. Vitamin C helps you to maintain and keep your skin looking beautiful and young. Because vitamin C protects your skin cells from the free radicals that damage your skin cells.

These damages accelerate skin aging. On the other hand, vitamin C helps to produce collagen. Collagen is a protein type that helps to make your skin elastic. Caviar lime helps to maintain the hydration of the skin. Also, it helps to reduce acne, psoriasis, pigmentation, and rosacea.

 3.Improve the health of your teeth and gums

Scurvy is a health condition and that’s symptoms are swollen and bleeding gums. The main reason for this health condition is the deficiency of vitamin C. So, keep in mind, if you consume Caviar lime, you can smile beautifully.

 4.Improve your eye health and vision

Caviar lime also packs with vitamin A. The general rule is, vitamin A helps to keep and maintain the optimum shape of your eyes and vision. Also, vitamin A is a strong antioxidant. Because of this, vitamin A protects your skin cells from damaging free radicals. These damaging free radicals can cause eye disease and even loss of your vision.

 5.Protect from age-related diseases

Caviar lime also rich in vitamin E. vitamin E is also a strong antioxidant like vitamin A and C. Vitamin E acts as a defense against the assortment of health problems that connect with aging. Examples of these age-related diseases are assortments of health problems that relate to the brain, joints, nerves, and heart.

 6.Lowered your blood pressure

Potassium is also a nutrient that contains in Caviar lime. Generally, this mineral helps to widen or enlarge the blood vessels. As a result of this, blood pressure tends to lower. And finally, blood pressure within the normal rate helps to prevent heart diseases.

At present heart diseases have become the main health issue of the elder as well as young people. So, you can reduce this heart disease risk by adding the foods like Caviar lime to your daily diet.

 7.Eliminate the risk of iron deficiency Anemia

You can add a good amount of iron by adding Caviar lime to your diet. Iron is an essential nutrient to produce red blood cells. Red blood cells are like a distributor. Because it is carrying oxygen throughout the body. So, Caviar lime or finger lime helps to reduce the risk of iron deficiency.