Embrapa also created varieties of soya that are more tolerant than usual of acid soils (even after the vast application of lime, the cerrado is still somewhat acidic).

ECONOMIST: Brazilian agriculture

He cleaned them in the early years, when they'd hauled lime and slag all day on the roads round Carlisle, and he was still cleaning them in 1985 when he had 26 of them.

ECONOMIST: Edward Stobart

The sailor was dirty and salty, but he wasn't hungry, and thanks to all the lime juice he'd drunk his gums weren't bleeding, his hair was still rooted, his breath wasn't as foul as it might be, and his lips were pinker than black.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Natives and Exotics'