How to choose watermelon?

Methods:

1. Watch colors and listen to sounds. If the surface of the melon is smooth, with clear patterns, obvious lines, and the bottom is yellow, it is a ripe melon; if the surface is hairy, dull, with spots and unclear lines, it is an unripe melon; when you flick the melon with your fingers, you will hear "bang bang bang" If you hear a "dang" sound, it is a ripe melon; if you hear a "dang" sound, it is not yet ripe; if you hear a "pop" sound, it is an overripe melon.

2. Look at the melon handle. If the melon is green, it is a ripe melon; if it is dark brown, has fallen hairs, is bent and brittle, and the tips of the tendrils have turned yellow and withered, it is a melon that was picked before it was ripe; if the melon stem has dried up, it is an "ayahuasca melon" and is of poor quality.

3. Look at the head and tail. Those with well-proportioned ends, deep depressions in the navel and melon base, and plump all around are good melons; melons with big heads and small tails or thick, pointed heads and tails are of poor quality.

4. Specific elasticity. If the skin of the melon is thin and easily broken when pressed with your fingers, it is a ripe melon; if it is about to crack under a fingernail and the melon is soft, it is an overripe melon.

5. Weigh with hands. If there is a feeling of floating in the sky, it is a ripe melon; if there is a feeling of sinking, it is a raw melon.

6. Test the proportion. When put into water, the ones that float upward are ripe melons; those that sink are raw melons.

7. Look at the size. Within the same species, larger is better than smaller.

8. Observe the shape. If the melon body is neat and well-proportioned, the growth is normal and the quality is good; if the melon body is deformed, the growth is abnormal and the quality is poor.

◎High-quality watermelon

Has the basic shape and characteristics of this product, no deformed fruit; bright and fresh surface, clear stripes; no mechanical damage, no pests and diseases and dry scars, wax powder has been removed The fruit has faded, the hairs on the stem have fallen off, and the navel is sunken; the pulp structure is moderately tight and uniformly bright red (there are also orange-yellow pulp varieties); it has a refreshing and refreshing taste, no peculiar smell; it has more juice, less seeds, and no crude fiber. Good melons have a "sandy" feeling and are moderately sweet.

◎Inferior quality watermelon

The fruit shape is slightly poor or has deformed fruits; the size is irregular and widely different, the color of the fruit is dirty and dark, the pattern is unclear, and there are dry scars, Mild insect eyes or bruises; more seeds and crude fiber, less juice, lack of sweetness and fragrance, but light taste.

◎Inferior quality watermelon

The body of the melon is irregular, the skin is gradually wilting, the pattern is unclear, the surface is damaged, there is a "pop" or "tat" sound when slapping the melon, and the pulp is It is pink or moon-white, tastes very bad, and has a rotten smell or other peculiar smell