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Limonin

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Li`mo´nin    (lî`mō´nĭn)
n.1.(Chem.) A bitter, white, crystalline substance found in orange and lemon seeds.
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It's possible, Lam speculates, that rats convert the juice's limonoid into limonin.
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Last year, Shin Hasegawa reported finding bacteria that could subtly transform limonin into nonbitter alternatives (SN:8/10/85,p.
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Grapefruit juicers face a double whammy: the same delayed limonin development and the presence--even in the intact fruit--of a bitter chemical known as naringin.
Fighting a juice's bitter end by Science News
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