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I drink lemonade regularly (I make my own), but to prevent heartburn, as lemon turns into a base in your stomach and is very helpful with heartburn. Now knowing that it is also good for kidney stone prevention just puts the cherry on top!

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> lemon turns into a base in your stomach

This doesn't make any sense to me. How can two acids combine to create a base?

Thinking the same. Lemonade gives me severe heartburn. Hurts just thinking about what a glass would do.

You're trying to make sense out of pseudoscience quackery. Please don't.

It looks [1] like limes have about as much citric acid, so cherry limeade should be as good an option, too!

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2637791/

Instead of dissolving tooth enamel, working on cavities, and type-2 diabetes perhaps take magnesium citrate in reasonable amounts in pill form. There is no sense to drinking sugar water.

Can you link a study showing that magnesium citrate pills block the progression of kidney stones? If not, I'll stick with lemonade, which does have such a study. I don't need to put sugar in it.

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