Lemon adds a nice, citrusy flavor to water — and beyond the taste, you may have heard of people drinking the combination for satiety or to encourage weight loss (more on that later). But you may be surprised at the latest beverage lemon is making an appearance in: coffee.
There’s something of a modern legend around adding lemon to your coffee. Proponents say that the combination will help you burn fat. Not only that, but some say that it’s nutritious and can help fight everything from diarrhea to headaches. Those claims see a bit, well, inflated, so we talked to two dietitians to separate the health from the hype.
Where did the idea of adding lemon to coffee come from?
It’s probably not a surprise that most of these claims spread widely on social media — the coffee and lemon trend initially went viral thanks to a TikTok challenge. The idea behind it was seductively simple: squeeze some lemon into your coffee to help burn fat and, consequently, kickstart your weight-loss journey. Thousands and thousands of folks jumped on board.
Plenty of TikTok users posted videos of themselves trying the trend and some of them have been quite candid in saying that they don’t exactly dig the flavor combo. Some folks said “hell no” after giving it the old college try, including one TikTok user that said she actually gained weight after drinking lemon in her coffee for a week straight.
Still, many swore that a touch of lemon in their coffee has helped them shed some pounds — including this TikTok user, who claimed to lose eight pounds in two weeks in two weeks. So does it really work?
Like so many social media trends, we can’t really pinpoint how — or why — this one got started. But it’s likely that whoever kicked off this viral challenge was thinking about the much-touted value of adding a lemon slice to your water.
Does lemon really help you lose weight?
We were curious to know if there’s any evidence that adding lemon to beverages can help you lose weight, so we asked New…
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