Watermelon calories 30 calories/100g.

China is the world's largest producer of watermelon, but about the origin of the watermelon, there are different accounts. One theory is that the watermelon did not originate in China, but in Africa, in the Western region, so the name watermelon. Another theory originates from the legend of Shennong tasted a hundred herbs, it is said that the watermelon in the Shennong tasted a hundred herbs was found, the original name is called diluted melon, meaning that the water is more meat diluted melon, but later passed on to become a watermelon.

The more popular view that the native place of the watermelon in Africa, it was originally a wild plant of the Cucurbitaceae family, and then artificially cultivated into edible watermelon. As early as four thousand years ago, the Egyptians planted watermelon, and then gradually moved north, initially by the Mediterranean coast to northern Europe, and then south into the Middle East, India and other places, the fourth and fifth centuries, by the western region into China, so called "watermelon".