This bitter be good.
Curious foodies of TikTok are now eating lemons whole — rind and all. The trend started thanks to one user’s discovery of snackable lemons by an Italian company called Lemon Snack.
The company grows small, low-acidic lemons with an edible peel rich in antioxidants that are made to take a bite out of — not peeling necessary.
TikTok user @lalaleluu shared in a video with 9.3 million views that she found the snack at her grocery store in Germany.
The influencer said it was “so awesome” and put some salt and chili powder onto the lemon snack for taste.
However, it appears that the Lemon Snack lemons are hard to find, so some people are taking matters into their own hands and just eating a regular lemon.
One user (@aaashleyk) posted that she saw Lala eat a whole lemon as a snack, so she wanted to try it out, too.
She cut the lemon up into slices rather than biting into it, adding honey and Tajin — and the verdict that it was actually good, but very sour.
Her friend who also tried one said that the concoction “tasted like pepperoni” and “is the type of meal you make when your parents forget to buy groceries.”
Another user, @mahakhamidd, went out looking for a snackable lemon, but the closest she could find at the farmers’ market was a “lemonquat” — which she said “has a thinner sweeter rind and pith than a regular lemon.”
She also ate the lemon in slices while still eating the rind and genuinely enjoyed it.
One other person said she “didn’t care” to look for the snackable lemons and was going to put everyone onto “something better: lemon, just regular.”
Her method included cutting the lemon into really thin slices, taking a piece of sushi pickle ginger and putting it on the lemon and just going for it.
“There’s something about this combination that just makes my eye twitch, and it’s so good,” user @suciia333 said in the video.
Surprisingly, people in the comments were all raving about eating lemons as a snack.
“snacking on lemon is my fav and everyone look at me like im crazy😭,” one person wrote.
“I eat regular lemons all the time 😭 I just really like them,” another said.
“are all peels not edible? I’ve been eating whole lemons with salt since I was a kid,” someone admitted.