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Lemon/lime juice used at Chipotle restaurant?

Can somebody who worked at a Chipotle restaurant answer this question: Does the lemon/lime juice in the white container used in the Cilantro-lime rice come premixed to the restaurant, or do the employees make the mixture at the restaurant by actually squeezing real lemons and limes? I'm just trying to figure out the recipe, and it seems to me that the lemon/lime juice is more than just lemon and limes, so I thought maybe it was a quot;juicequot; mass produced with maybe some more additives, like sugar. Anybody know this?Thanks.

Answer:

Both are Calcium Hydroxide Ca(OH)2. Slaked lime is a saturated (Hydrated) solution of Ca(OH)2. Limewater is simply diluted slaked lime. Quicklime is Calcium Oxide (CaO). Add water to get the Hydroxide. CaO + H2O = Ca(OH)2
What Is Slaked Lime
Slaked Lime is an old name for calcium hydroxide [Ca(OH)2]. (Lime/quicklime are old names for calcium oxide). Limewater is a saturated solution of calcium hydroxide in water. Calcium hydroxide is added to distilled water and mixed thoroughly, the excess solid is allowed to settle and the clear solution carefully poured off into another container. The 'limewater' is used to test for carbon dioxide - it will go cloudy (a precipitate of calcium carbonate) if CO2 is passed into it.

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