It improves bowel movement and relieves constipation.” Another good thing about calamansi is that it strengthens the immune system. Shaikh wrote: “Calamansi has good amounts of minerals and vitamins, especially vitamin C which is essential to building immunity.
is a common thing in some Filipino cuisines. It is used as a condiment in pansit canton and arroz caldo. Chicken inasal and inihaw na baboy are not complete without it. It’s a basic sawsawan (Filipino dip)—combined with soy sauce or patis – for fish, lumpiang shanghai, lumpiang singkamas or dumplings.
It is called calamansi or calamondin. Among the Bisaya-speaking Filipinos, it is lemonsito. In other parts of the world, it is known as Philippine lime (scientific name: Citrofortunella microcarpa).
