Spoiler alert: I was surprised to find that upon speaking to several certified nutritionists, it turns out that there isn’t much to back up many of the claims behind this popular wonder-drink.

Nutritionist Isa Robinson tells me that the hype around hot water and lemon is simply down to ‘good PR’. “We don’t have loads of evidence that drinking hot water with lemon has all these additional benefits, it’s not necessarily any better than having an herbal tea.”

Carola Becker, a nutritionist and fitness instructor, also dispels the ‘detoxing’ myth. “Lemon water seems to be getting a massive amount of hype recently, and sadly a lot of false claims are made about it. That includes the old myth of detoxing – we have got a liver and kidneys which are busy 24 hours a day detoxing our bodies.” So no, you can’t thank the hot drink for that one.

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