How to choose a watermelon

How to choose a ripe watermelon? This is perhaps one of the most pressing issues of August. You can remember Tips "Seasoned", and you can walk to the truth itself through trial and error. But the summer comes to an end so quickly, and the hundreds of others waiting watermelon meeting with us was he - the perfect choice!

National love for watermelons can not be overestimated. French as a wonderful fruit called food of the angels. Who knows, after the miracle berry is mentioned in the Bible! "Next" watermelon was found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs and verses of Virgil. Chinese first tasted it in the VIII century and was called "melon West." But now only one America there are more than three hundred species of watermelon. In our country melon (watermelon one of the names) were brought from India only in the XII century, began to cultivate a little later in the Sea of Azov and in the Volga delta. In the first Zlatoglavaya berries giants were brought from Astrakhan in 1560 on the orders of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Strange to say, but in Russia for a long time did not use watermelon raw. His flesh is crushed, soaked in soda and syrup prepared from it with pepper and spices. Perhaps this eccentricity - of self-preservation, and explained it on long trips watermelon from abroad, where it took out before the end of the XVIII century. After a long time in a way the fruit could lose freshness and become unfit for consumption raw. But even in such a watermelon nepervozdannom immediately took its rightful place in the royal menu, and Peter I even gave a gun salute in honor of the melons.

Meanwhile, in the valleys of North Africa in the semi-desert Kalahari, like 4000 years ago, quietly growing thickets of wild watermelon - forefather. It started out bumpy ride our handsome. However, the handsome man-made, as when people only took up his ennoblement, he was bitter to the taste and the size does not exceed the grapefruit.

List of nutrients in watermelon is so great that his detailed listing may cause the reader yawn. It should be noted in brief: watermelon 89% water. The rest - the micro and macro, sugar, fiber and pectin. Lead Bs and vitamin B1, PP, C, folic acid, carotenoids, potassium, iron, magnesium, calcium, amino acids. Redness pulp provide beta-carotene - a precursor of vitamin A, lycopene and arginine - precursor of nitric oxide. Mature Kavun included in the diet for kidney, liver and stomach. Watermelons are good for the treatment of gout, prevent the formation of kidney stones and heart disease. The iron content in the fruit so high that their use for the prevention of anemia.
Of course, we love watermelon is not for abstract components, and for the consummate taste, they provide! Agree, in the August heat so eager to throw off the shackles of human secular and semi-wild burst of one`s teeth into a juicy, sugar, cold watermelon flesh, that the fresh juice ran down his chin! Of course, you can do without the extremes, but the selection criteria shall be inviolable.

Tips for Choosing a watermelon

The first thing you should remember eager buyer, watermelon - a finish summer. Search Kavun good in early June - a thankless task. Time to gather and scatter stones (in our case - watermelons) - August-September.

The second, equally important axiom - the meeting place can not be changed. Buy watermelons only in shops or stalls specially equipped with a bimini top. The fruits of such outlets must lie on the floor, raised about 15 centimeters. Such requirements are explained by the fact that watermelon must rest torn away from sunlight and higher off the ground, so that through the micro cracks that are not always visible to the naked eye, did not penetrate pathogens. And, of course, get round along roads lined with watermelon placers. Melons easily absorb pollutants from the environment, and even if you filed a certificate of quality, the product will no longer be the same. Just a couple of hours roadside watermelon absorbs the volatile mix of heavy metals, but because of the fruit soaked in exhaust gases can be obtained serious poisoning.

The third criterion of choice - a quality certificate. If you request a certificate in the store, do not be afraid if stern guards require the same from you. Restraint and embarrassment here are misplaced, because at stake - your health. Watermelon "passport" will tell the whole story: where I came from, what heavy metals were seen, what percentage of radiation at which the fertilizer grew and do a lot of what we had no idea to ask. Pay attention to the homeland of watermelon - the hotter and drier air is the locus, the sweeter the "whale".

Enterprising dealer can show you a copy of the certificate, in this case, be sure to print a copy of the color, since other embodiments may undermine confidence in the product.

If after the above you have not yet disappeared desire to "get to the essence", the fourth step: external examination. Watermelon should be safe and sound, without cracks and trampled. Penetrating through the cracks that microbes multiply rapidly in the environment so sweet at elevated temperatures. It is therefore prohibits the sale of sliced watermelon.

Fifth criterion - the value of berries. For this is exactly the case when size does matter. Huge watermelon - not bail quality, and often little immature. It is better to stop look at the medium-sized watermelon.

Rule number six - the crust must shine like polished nickle. This does not mean that before that someone had to polish it to make the presentation - the surface quality of watermelon shines by itself. In addition, the surface of the fruit should be firm. The fact that the mature watermelon dries ponytail, stops the ingress of moisture and the crust hardens slowly. If you managed to declare itself as a buyer circumstantial, the seller will not be surprised that, leaning over the watermelon, you poskrebпїЅte gently with your fingernail. Make sure that pierce it rather difficult, and if the "introduction" is still there, inhale the aroma of damaged skin. The smell of freshly cut grass - an indicator of fetal immaturity.

Step Seven - determine the degree of banding. Watermelon on "their looks" and meet and escort. At the ripe watermelon color "shirt" should be maximum contrast.

The eighth stage of verification --seed yellow barrel. As a rule, one of the sides Kavun left without solar heat and light, so this secret places ceases production of chlorophyll. In the mature fruit "otlпїЅzhanny" flank should be saturated yellow or orange.

Step Nine - this is usually where to begin insufficiently informed buyers: the study of tail. Dry tail - is not always an indicator of maturity, despite the fact that ripe fruit "umbilical cord" definitely dry. The fact is that when watermelon "condition reaches" is separated from the drying by melons tail. But we should remember that watermelons could derail green, and "vestige" could dry out during prolonged transportation. In addition, resourceful implementers guessed "twist tails" watermelons - specifically processes break to pieces in a few places, so withered and surely very soon. Therefore, you need to consider a sign of dryness along with the rest.

"... I can not understand who you are, he or she is?" These words may precede the tenth step in choosing the sweetest Kavun. It turns out that watermelon - berry bisex