Immediately to May and June, and is to eat melon good season, melon is very delicious, fresh taste, but you know how many varieties of melon in the end? And what is the nutritional value? Here we come together to see!

1, Xiangfei: early, disease-resistant, suitable for cultivation around the cantaloupe, for the Xinjiang "red heart crispy" improved melon, varieties with early, disease-resistant, strong results and other advantages. And keep "red heart crisp" flesh crisp quality. Fruit spindle humour type, yellow-green skin, fruit surface with sparse mesh, fruit weight of about 2 kg, flesh thick light orange, sugar between 13-16%, about 40 days after the flowering of maturity, resistance to storage and transportation strong.

2, orange dew: a new type of advanced greenhouse reticulated orange flesh varieties. Fruit high spherical, reticulation coarse beautiful, mature about 55 days after flowering. Fruit weight 1-1.5 kg, grayish green peel, orange flesh, soft and tender flesh, especially delicious flavor, sugar is generally more than 14%. It is not easy to crack the fruit, strong storage and transportation, and does not remove the tip.

3, long fragrant jade: large fruit reticulation orange meat hami melon, fertility strong, more resistant to blight. Fruit long oval, gray-green skin, reticulation fine stability, fruit weight of about 2.5 kg, flesh orange-red, sugar about 16 degrees, flesh fine and soft with flavor. The full-life span is about 90 days.

In addition to the above three common varieties, the Chinese agricultural network and collated suitable for all parts of the growth of melons: suitable for Xinjiang and Northwest arid areas of early planting of the yellow egg (female banker), Loop honey, medium maturity of the red heart of the crispy, reticulated incense, pear yellow, white orchid melons, etc., and the late maturity of the black eyebrow of honey extremely sweet, Karaksei (Gashigua), the Queen, Fortress Red, and so on. Suitable for North China, Northeast China, Central China, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other semi-moist areas planted thin-skinned melons, such as early blooming flowers (Shaanxi, Henan), five floor for, Long sweet No. 1 (Heilongjiang), small flowers Road (Inner Mongolia), medium-ripening South China 108, white rabbit baby, ten-pronged golden gourd, Wang Hai, silver melon and so on.

1, sweet melon taste sweet, cold, non-toxic, to the heart, stomach meridian; with heat relief, in addition to the annoyance of thirst, diuretic effect; used for summer heat caused by the chest and diaphragm full of uncomfortable, loss of appetite, annoyance of thirst, heat knot bladder, urination, etc., has a good health effect.

2, melon contains a lot of carbohydrates and citric acid, carotene and vitamins B, C, etc., and abundant water, can eliminate heat, thirst, in addition to annoyance.

3, melon in the conversion enzyme can be insoluble protein into soluble protein, can help kidney patients absorb nutrients.

4, melon tip contains cucurbitacin B can significantly increase the experimental hepatic glycogen accumulation, reduce chronic liver injury, thereby preventing hepatocellular steatosis and inhibit fibroplasia.

5, modern research has found that melon seeds have to kill roundworms, filarial worms and other effects, can be widely used in the treatment of worms and diseases.

6, melon cooked meat contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, inorganic salts, etc., can supplement the body's energy and nutrients needed to help the body restore health.

Look at the appearance

In the selection of melon, in addition to the beginning to choose the desired varieties, but also to pick to the sweeter, tasty, so first of all, you have to look at the appearance of the melon. Take the white skin melon for example, melon skin has scratches or has been slowly in the yellow, we should not choose, although the melon skin scratches look and feel fine, but the scratches are likely to have invaded the melon flesh, melon flesh flavor changed.

Weighing

Before weighing the melon, you need to look at the melon skin thick, melon skin thicker to prove that it has a higher sugar content, the taste will be more crispy. When weighing, don't choose a melon that is very hard. Although the water content of the melon will make it heavy, a melon that is too hard is likely not to be fully ripe.

Touch the tip

Melons are usually picked with a small tip, which you can touch when picking. Don't choose the thicker ones, as they may have been treated with growth hormones and will not taste as good. Then look at the freshness of the melon tip, the melon tip will fall off when you touch it to prove that it is not fresh enough.

Smell

The melon itself has its own flavor, is the kind of smell is very natural flavor, aroma and smell comfortable melon is better, you can pick this. Some merchants in order to make the melon smell more fragrant, spray some flavor agent, we must be carefully identified when selecting.