When you eat an orange and your lips touch the orange skin it causes an unpleasant tingling sensation.
2007-02-09 08:52:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
Honey works real good to not only take the tingly sensation away,, but if you get raw honey,, there's a bit of bee's wax in the honey,, so it will coat you lips against further citrus invasion
2007-02-09 12:18:37 · answer #1 · answered by brak_the_hun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the citric acid from the orange touching the sensitive skin of your lips.
The lip cells are the same as genital cells, to give you an idea of sensitivity threshold.
Avoid touching the orange with your lips.
2007-02-09 08:56:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be the acid in the orange oil found in the zest of the orange peel. Only the zest has the orange oil, the zest is the colored layer of the peel. The white layer of the peel is the pith/pithe (sp?), which has no orange oil.
Peel it completely before eating it.
2007-02-09 11:15:51 · answer #3 · answered by Dolores G. Llamas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont let your lips touch the orange skin
2007-02-09 11:19:02 · answer #4 · answered by birdbrain62863 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I peel it first-- don't like the bitterness of the oil in the peel
2007-02-09 13:51:05 · answer #5 · answered by Connie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i knoww
i hate that
dont eat the skin..
2007-02-09 08:54:27 · answer #6 · answered by anonymous 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put on chap stick beforehand.
2007-02-09 11:06:46 · answer #7 · answered by Monica T 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
thats cuzz you r lacking the vitamin c u need that
2007-02-09 08:55:13 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋