Ingredient Information

Juice, Lime

There are bottled lime juice products on the market but they simply don’t taste much like limes.  It is best to simply use fresh limes. For almost any recipe it is a good idea to also zest the lime — there is a great fresh lime flavor that can really help transcend any recipe.

As the Key Lime Pie recipe says, you can use regular lime juice but it takes more juice than when using key limes. Key limes are more pungent and tart tasting than regular limes.

A bottled key lime juice was tested for this recipe. Florribbean 100% Key Lime Juice was simply terrible. The pie was not edible with the finished product having a plastic taste to it.

1/4 cup lime juice = 17 calories, 0 fat, 0g sat fat, 0g mono fat, <1g protein, 5g carbohydrates, 0mg sodium, 0mg cholesterol