With the onset of August, many of us become sad, because you do not have time to look back, how cool autumn days will come, the time for holidays will end, and you will have to immerse yourself in working days ... But even in this period there is something that we all love very much and without which we just do not imagine the end of summer and the beginning of autumn - it's a watermelon.
You bring it from the market, carefully wash it with a brush, scald with boiling water, and then wipe it dry and put it on the table. Handsome man in half! Immediately resorting to domestic, you cut a giant berry, and the kitchen carries a refreshing aroma ... red, sweet, juicy watermelon - what a pleasure! And besides the magic taste, this berry gives a lot of benefits to our body: watermelon contains fiber, iron, potassium, pectin, lycopene and a lot of vitamins.
But it happens that the purchased watermelon causes vexation - and not sweet, and some too pale, even dry inside ... But you chose it so carefully, and the seller recommended you take this one ...
So how to choose a watermelon in order not to be disappointed? After all, a bad watermelon, for example, in which there is an overabundance of nitrates, will harm your body.
Choose a watermelon
If you see that the streaks on the pulp of the watermelon are thick, yellow, and not white, then this can talk about the excess of nitrates, therefore, such a watermelon is dangerous, it is better to throw it away.
Although, in our time it is practically impossible to find 100% ecologically pure products, but you still need to know that in a watermelon the allowable content of nitrates should not be more than 60 mg / kg.
By the way, in order to determine whether the bright-red watermelon is a natural color, or if the watermelon has been painted, you need to put a piece of pulp into a glass of water. If the water is colored, then the watermelon is tinted, and if it just became cloudy, then no.
But let's start in order. You decided to buy a watermelon. First you need to decide on the place of purchase - never buy a watermelon in suspicious places. In general, do not hesitate to ask the seller for a certificate of state sanitary epidemiological supervision. Pay special attention to how purely the place of sale of watermelons. According to the rules, the point of sale should be under a canopy, and watermelons should be placed in special pallets with a height of at least twenty centimeters. And in any case you can not buy watermelons that are sold along the roads - you just imagine how many bad substances from the air they will absorb through the skin!
We often make the same mistake - we ask the seller to choose a delicious watermelon. But there is no guarantee that he will choose for you a really good watermelon, and not one that can not be sold for a long time. Therefore, it is better to make your own choice.
Never buy a watermelon with a cutout, because you do not know how clean the knife was from the seller. And never buy a damaged watermelon, even if you are offered it for a lower price, remember the saying that "miser pays twice"?
When tapping on a watermelon you should hear a deaf sound - this is a sign of maturity. If you have enough strength to squeeze the watermelon with your hands, and while you hear the crack - it's just fine, take it, this watermelon will necessarily be tasty.
Also a sign of ripeness is a small speck of bright yellow on the side of the watermelon (but not white!) - this side of the watermelon lay on the ground. If this spot is large enough, it does not speak in favor of watermelon, most likely, it had to ripen in not very good conditions, with a lack of light, so it is unlikely that it will be sweet and tasty.
The shape of the watermelon should be correct, spherical, and the color - dark, which clearly shows the light strips. The more contrast colors, the more delicious the watermelon.
Pay close attention to the peel - it should be shiny, without a matte coating, and its upper layer can easily be scratched with a fingernail. On the surface of watermelon should not be cracks, spots, points (the points can appear as a result of injecting the drug to enhance growth or tinting liquid).
It is best to choose medium-sized watermelons (six to ten kilograms), too much watermelon, perhaps overfed with growth-enhancing drugs, and small, as a rule, unripe.
If you bought a watermelon has a sour smell, then in no case it is impossible to eat it - you can easily get food poisoning.
Myths about watermelons
I would like to dispel a couple of myths. It is believed that the dry peduncle is a sign of the ripeness of watermelon, but this is not at all - after all, we do not know whether the stalk was dry at the moment when the watermelon was ripped off or dried up afterwards.
They say that a ripe watermelon watermelon (the so-called flower-footprint) should be wide. But in fact this does not affect the ripeness of watermelon - it's just a sign of a watermelon of a female, i.e. a wider circle remained of the flower, nothing more.
I hope these tips will help you not to make a mistake with your choice. Good luck!
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