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Kitron is a citron liqueur produced on the Greek island of 
The drink was briefly fashionable during the early 1980s, but today it cannot be easily found outside Naxos due to a shortage of citron trees.
The first distillery was established in 1896 in the village of Halki.
Kitron has a distinctive citrusy aroma and flavor, and it is traditionally enjoyed as a digestif.
Naxos Official Site
by Greek Travel
Greece 9 - Korina Miller, Kate Armstrong, Michael Stamatios Clark, Chris Deliso - Google Books
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition - David A. Bender - Google Books
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Naxos
Naxos (; , ) is a Greek island belonging to the Cyclades island group. It is the largest island in the group. It was an important centre during the Bronze Age Cycladic Culture and in the Ancient Greek Archaic Period. The island is famous as ...
. It is made from the fruit and leaves of the citron
The citron (''Citrus medica''), historically cedrate, is a large fragrant citrus fruit with a thick Peel (fruit), rind. It is said to resemble a 'huge, rough lemon'. It is one of the Citrus taxonomy#Citrons, original citrus fruits from which al ...
tree, which is similar to the lemon
The lemon (''Citrus'' × ''limon'') is a species of small evergreen tree in the ''Citrus'' genus of the flowering plant family Rutaceae. A true lemon is a hybrid of the citron and the bitter orange. Its origins are uncertain, but some ...
tree but stronger and slightly different in taste.
Kitron comes in three varieties. The green variety is sweeter and contains less alcohol
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* Alcohol (chemistry), a class of compounds
* Ethanol, one of several alcohols, commonly known as alcohol in everyday life
** Alcohol (drug), intoxicant found in alcoholic beverages
** Alcoholic beverage, an alco ...
, containing 30% ABV. The yellow-colored variety is the strongest at 36% ABV, and has the least sugar
Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose
Glucose is a sugar with the Chemical formula#Molecular formula, molecul ...
. Colorless Kitron is somewhere in between, at 33% ABV.
The drink was briefly fashionable during the early 1980s, but today it cannot be easily found outside Naxos due to a shortage of citron trees.
The first distillery was established in 1896 in the village of Halki.
Kitron has a distinctive citrusy aroma and flavor, and it is traditionally enjoyed as a digestif.
See also
*List of lemon dishes and beverages
This is a list of lemon dishes and drinks, in which lemon is used as a primary ingredient. Lemon is a small evergreen tree native to Asia, and the tree's ellipsoidal yellow hesperidium, fruit. The fruit is used for culinary and non-culinary purp ...
* Greek citron
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References
External links
Naxos Official Site
by Greek Travel
Greece 9 - Korina Miller, Kate Armstrong, Michael Stamatios Clark, Chris Deliso - Google Books
A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition - David A. Bender - Google Books
Greek cuisine Greek liqueurs Citrus liqueurs Lemon drinks Citron {{Greece-cuisine-stub