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Where does yellow-skinned watermelon come from?
There are in Beijing. At the Watermelon Festival, melon farmers in Daxing plant yellow-skinned watermelons with the patterns of Olympic Fuwa on them. They are specially cultivated.

The watermelons we usually eat are all red, but now there is a kind of yellow watermelon in some places, which is amazing.

This kind of watermelon with yellow flesh is called New Jin Lan, which is a rare watermelon variety introduced from Taiwan Province Province. Melon is small, only 3 kg at most, with high and uniform sugar content, which melts in the mouth. This variety has not been planted in other parts of Henan. It takes only 33 days for this kind of yellow-skinned watermelon to mature, and it can be harvested twice a year with an yield of 3000 kg per mu.

Red watermelon contains lycopene and yellow watermelon contains lutein, which is an antioxidant food with anti-cancer and anti-aging beauty effects. The calories of red watermelon are higher than those of Xiaoyu watermelon.