How to Pick the Perfect Lime and Avoid the Dry Ones | Food Unwrapped

Kate is about to get to the bottom of why supermarket limes are so dry, and how to find a good one that will be full of juice.

FOOD UNWRAPPED explores how our food is really made and the industry secrets behind our favourite produce. Reporters Matt Tebbutt, Jimmy Doherty and Kate Quilton travel the globe to discover just how the food we love is mass-produced. The series contacts supermarkets and manufacturers with simple questions about the food we buy, then visits the factories to investigate! Taking the cameras behind the doors of factories worldwide, the inquisitive food lovers meet food technicians, scientists, factory owners, growers, and producers in order to reveal weird and wonderful facts we never knew about our food.

[CHEVYCAMAROGEN]

As a Mexican The smoothest and shiny the lime, the juiciest the lime great for seviche

[samkibby]

I'm surprised this channel isnt more popular lol

[davidronson]

I love how she was cutting with a saw knife directly into the palm of her hand. I was very young and decided to cut a piece of cheese the same way she did, but it went through, and I cut myself really bad, since then I have a butcher mesh glove for my left hand, I use it whenever I am cutting.

[Juliobrem]

When you get a dry/dark green lime, you could rolled up on the table pushing it and roll it, so you can extract more juice when you cut it.
Trust me I’m Mexican I eat them every day without exception.

[iltjoa]

Also the juiciest are heavier than dry ones

[buckdaman]

So much good info from this show please make new stuff !

[lupehernandez]

I always touch the limes before I bag them, if you found soft skin limes, doesn't matter, the color, they are juicy.

[TheFoodieCutie]

If you didn't want to sit through the video here's the tl;dw:
Good lime qualities: tenderness, yellowish light green color, smooth not rough skin
Bad lime qualities: Rough skin, dark green color, firmness.

[MrBobWareham]

You should do a video on Oranges the best one with lots of juice and no pith as big oranges have a very thick skin with thick pith

[robbe]

She went to Israel to squeeze his limes

[abte]

cut a lime in three pieces, no matter how dry it is always more juice

[Juliobrem]

You should be getting juice on your skin Under the sun. Lol. It would leave a stain/ burn mark. When I was young a friend and I where eating limes and sweet limes under the sun . He got a stain mustache for over a Year.

[weihtpn]

its new to me israel is a "hub" for limes, but now i know where those limes go to and why i only see lemons on the markets...