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Default Fresh or Bottled lemon juice for canning?

sometime in the recent past posted this:
> I'm new to canning so I apologize for dumb questions in advance.......want
> to can some tomatoes and the majority of recipe's I've found say
> specifically to use bottled lemon juice, none that I have seen say why that
> is. I ran across these instructions today
>
http://www.pickyourown.org/pressure_...g_tomatoes.htm and
> they say fresh or bottled is ok. I also am canning some salsa and I can not
> find one recipe that includes fresh lemon juice. I would prefer to use
> fresh lemon juice, but not sure it is safe........TIA

For me, it would depend on two things - first if I had a lemon tree and
second if they were hanging on the tree (in season,) I'd be using fresh
since it would be organic, non-pesticide treated and fresh. Otherwise,
bottled serves well for all the reasons stated below.

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