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in Kerikeri, the citrus capital of New Zealand. When Rhona
MacKenzie and her husband Marcel bought a lemon orchard in Kerikeri
they went in with the romance of city people growing your own fruit.
But Rhona felt inspired to take her new found passion for lemons
further and developed LEMON FRESH, a range of lemon products for
cooking and drinking.
"Friends encouraged me to make lemon curd" Rhona explains. "But as a
mother I did not want to produce anything that would have a truckloads of sugar
in it.
How can you take a fruit that is packed full of health benefits and mix it with
sugar orartificial additives?" That's when she realised that she wanted to make
natural lemonade for kids, to provide parents with an alternative to soft drinks full
of synthetic sweeteners, colourings and flavorings.