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imitation lime juice

products with a long shelf-life

Note that maltodextrin is very important for being able to include the citrus oils in a powder form.

You can also buy lime peel oil separately. These may have less of the culinary acids and more of the volatile aromatics, but you can combine them with the culinary acids. This would potentially result in a better-tasting final product, even though it requires an extra step.

Brian Tasch's three-part article that started to be published in 2020

Part 1, part 2, part 3.

A list of recipes mentioned across the full article:

  1. Dave Arnold's lime acid solution — citric acid + malic acid only
  2. Ryan Chetiyawardana's White Lyan fake lime juice (scroll down to the "Editor's Note")
  3. Kelsey Ramage and Iain Griffith's Trash Tiki citrus stock, that starts with left-over citrus husks that would otherwise be thrown out
  4. Nickle Morris' "Super Juice" recipe, modified and popularized by Kevin Kos
  5. Brian Tasch's "Pseudo Citrus" recipe, that starts with lemon or lime peel

Some other things that are interesting from that article:

my own recipe, Nov 8, 2024

I'm thinking about combining 1) these organic acids in powder form with 2) lime peel oil that's manufactured by someone else.

I'm hoping that lime oil sold by someone else has a long shelf-life (whether that be from added preservatives, or just because the oil itself inherently has a long shelf life), so these two components stored separately could have an extremely long shelf life.

Places to buy food grade lime oil — Zongle [2] [3] [4] (more) (Be careful to avoid lime oil that's only intended for external use only, i.e. aromatic use. It must be food grade.)

Limonene is one of the major components of citrus peel oil, and it can be bought by itself at — [1] (more)

my own recipe, Nov 16, 2024

It's possible to convert any fat into a powder: