Watermelon is a popular fruit in summer. Of course, you want to choose watermelon that is sweet and ripe. Here are some tips for choosing watermelon:
1, look at the umbilical circle at the bottom.
The quality of watermelon is raw and ripe, delicious or not, which can be judged from the navel circle at the bottom of watermelon. The smaller the circle, the better. On the contrary, the bigger the circle at the bottom, the thicker the skin and the more unpalatable it is.
2, watermelon shape
Watermelon has a straight shape, hard and full skin, clear patterns, slightly uneven wavy skin, tightly packed pedicels and umbilicus, and slightly yellow skin on the ground. This is a sign that watermelon is mature and a good melon. If watermelon head has a small tail or a thick tip and tail, it is a poor quality melon.
3. Watermelon color
It's best to choose turquoise as the surface color of watermelon. This kind of watermelon is fresh and delicious. If the surface color of watermelon is foggy and white, don't choose it. This kind of watermelon is neither sweet nor fresh.
4. Watermelon grain
Watermelon is a ripe melon with smooth skin, clear pattern, obvious grain and yellow bottom. The surface is fuzzy, dull, mottled and unclear, which is an immature melon.
5. Listen to the sound
Play melon with your fingers, you hear? Bang bang? It's a ripe melon, you hear? Dangdang? Sound, not ripe, hear? Poof-poof? It's an overripe melon.
6. Look at the melon handle
Guadi is green, and the curved melon is ripe and sweet; Guati is dark brown, fluffy, bent and brittle, and the tip of curled beard turns yellow and withered, which is a melon that has been picked before it is ripe; The handle of the melon has dried up, hasn't it? Dead vines? , poor quality.
7. Specific weight
Compared with two watermelons, if the varieties are the same and the size is the same, the lighter one is the more mature one, and vice versa, and the heavier the melon, the lower the maturity. Because in the process of watermelon growth, a large part of water will be evaporated and consumed, which will become sugar (i.e. sand pulp). Therefore, mature melons are lighter than melons of the same variety and size. In addition, you can also put watermelons into the water for observation. What floats upward is ripe melons, and what sinks is raw melons.
8. Specific elasticity
The melon skin is thin, and it is fragile when pressed with your fingers, which is a cooked melon; It will crack when scratched with nails, and the skin of the melon is soft, which is an overripe melon.