Watermelon is a cool fruit.
Because watermelon belongs to the cool fruit so there is a certain effect of clearing heat and detoxification. The nutrients are also very much appropriate to eat some watermelon on the body has the benefit. If you eat too much watermelon at one time is a relatively common food in daily life.
Watermelon has a high nutritional value, contains a variety of vitamins, carbohydrates and minerals, eaten after the body can replenish the nutrients needed to enhance the body's immune system has a certain help. And the water in the watermelon is more adequate, in the hot summer eat some watermelon in moderation, you can achieve the role of thirst, to prevent heat stroke is also helpful.
Watermelon is mainly used for fresh food, which contains a variety of nutrients, nutrient-rich, fruit of the summer fruit, immature fruit can be pickled and eaten, ripe and eaten directly, the flavor of sweet crisp. Watermelon seeds contain aromatic oils and can be fried. Watermelon through processing, can also be made into watermelon cream, watermelon jelly and cool drinks. Watermelon rind can be made into candied fruit, melon candy.
Selection of watermelon tips:
1, look at the melon vine
Pick the watermelon vine thick green for the best, because the more green the melon tip, the fresher the melon; in addition, the melon vine is curved watermelon is also sweeter than the melon vine is straight watermelon. Melon withered, it is likely to be "early picking melon", straight melon vine.
2, look at the watermelon umbilicus and melon tip
Watermelon umbilicus and melon tip part of the deep depression, and around the full is usually ripe melon. It is not true that the smaller the umbilicus, the better the watermelon.
3, look at the watermelon lines
Good watermelon skin lines thick clear, deep and shallow, glossy and bright, and lines neat watermelon than lines messy delicious. Watermelons with messy patterns are usually not ripe enough and have more tendons inside the melon.
When you buy a watermelon, every time you cut it, the juice flows everywhere. In fact, with a chopstick, you can cut the watermelon quickly and neatly, without losing the juice.