Japanese people eat watermelons with salt, and they are cautious when eating melons. The reason is quite distressing.

Eating fruits is a way for most of us to satisfy our cravings after a full meal, and fruits are also rich in vitamins and sugar. Some fruits are the cheapest in season. Watermelon in summer is almost the cheapest fruit in the whole year. Our country is the region with the largest number of watermelons planted in the world, and the number of these watermelons exported is basically negligible. It is conceivable how large the number of watermelon-eating people is. The way to eat watermelon is simply to cut it and chew it directly. In Japan, where we are separated only by a strip of water, they have one more procedure to eat watermelon than we do, and that is to eat watermelon and sprinkle salt.

Friends who have watched the Japanese food TV series "Lonely Gourmet" may all have the impression that Goro eats watermelon. On TV, the neighbor old man of the hero brought him two pieces of watermelon to entertain him, and the old man himself ate one of them, because watermelon is a luxury fruit in Japan, which is not cheap to sell. Although it is not beyond the reach of ordinary people, few Japanese people really buy the whole watermelon to eat. When they eat watermelon, they sprinkle some salt on it, which makes many people in China don't understand, because we usually try to avoid eating both salty and sweet tastes when eating raw and cold food, because it is said that it is easy to have diarrhea. Then why aren't Japanese afraid of diarrhea when they eat watermelon and sprinkle salt?

In the past, when there were few varieties of watermelons and even fewer high-quality varieties, many watermelons grown in places with little sunshine even had to be sprinkled with sugar. Japanese people eat fruit and think: if you want to be sweet, sprinkle salt first. The Japanese are quite good at calculating. Watermelon will taste sweeter when sprinkled with a small amount of salt, but the sweetness felt after sprinkling salt is not increased out of thin air, but the hidden sugar is stimulated by salt. In fact, eating without salt absorbs so much sugar.

In the final analysis, the practice of sprinkling salt on watermelons is to fool the tongue. It is rare for Japanese people to eat watermelons under ordinary conditions, and the more precious the ingredients, the more ceremonial they taste. There is a female movie star in Japan who has been honored as a teacher all over East Asia. She said that eating watermelon in China is really cool, and a whole watermelon can be bought for more than ten dollars. In Japan, she has never experienced the feeling of a person holding half a watermelon and digging it with a spoon. She didn't sprinkle salt when eating watermelon in China, because watermelon is very cheap, so there is no need to sprinkle salt carefully to increase the sweetness and deceive her tongue.

Some people say that it is scientific for Japanese people to eat watermelon and sprinkle salt, because it is necessary to replenish salt when sweating in summer, so eating watermelon and sprinkle salt can relieve summer heat and replenish salt. This is a clever way to eat watermelon, and this reason may be reasonable.

Many netizens think that Japanese fruits are expensive, and it is pitiful that Japanese people are so careful when eating a watermelon. In fact, there is no need to think so. After all, it is much easier for Japanese people to eat seafood than us. Fruit is not just a need for survival, and the way to supplement vitamins is not only to eat fruit, but also to say that each has its own way of living.

We all know that it's wrong to laugh at people, but it's refreshing to watch them eat a watermelon so hard and carefully add salt to enhance the sweet taste.