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The next time you’re in a restaurant and you order water with lemon, you might be drinking more than you bargained for.

As a matter of fact, those lemon wedges you love could be covered in little, tiny, dirty organisms harmful for your body.

Researchers tested the rinds and flesh of 76 lemons from 21 restaurants collected during 43 visits and found that an incredible 70 percent of them produced microbial growth.

The samples were collected as

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