No. Watermelon seeds actually come from the seed melon, a close relative of watermelon. Sunflower seeds come from sunflowers that circle the sun every day, pumpkin seeds are the seeds of the pumpkins we often eat, and watermelon seeds are not necessarily the seeds of watermelon.

These seed melons, a variant of watermelon. Because of the growth of more solid, need to punch and kick to get open, so it is also known as "beat melon". In fact, we eat the seeds of watermelon can also eat, but the size is too small, not suitable for special production into fried snacks. Compared to the watermelon we eat, the seeded watermelon is smaller, and although it looks similar to a watermelon in appearance, the inside is very different.

The flesh of seed melons is lighter in color, mostly white, but also light yellow and light red, and can be eaten with a sweet taste, but the taste is still not comparable to that of watermelon. The real use of seed melon in the seeds, particles, large and full, after frying, shell thin kernel flavor, this is what we often eat "watermelon seeds.

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Seed melon planting in China has a long history. As early as in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's Empress Ma had personally named the hit melon Maling melon, the hit melon seeds as tribute. So the activity of getting high on melon seeds can be said to be popular from ancient times to the present.

Seed melon according to the color of the melon shell is divided into red seed melon and black seed melon, China's seed melon planting is basically showing a "southern red and northern black" pattern. The red seed melon is mainly distributed in Guangxi, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, black seed melon is mainly distributed in Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia.