Nutritional value of a water-melon is given in article. Also recommendations are made how to choose a ripe and sweet water-melon.
Besides high flavoring qualities, the water-melon is rich with many nutrients, for 90 % it consists of water
Besides high flavoring qualities, the water-melon is rich with many nutrients, for 90 % it consists of water. Its pulp contains easily acquired fructose and glucose and, in small degree, sucrose. In a water-melon there are a lot of vitamins – V1 and V2 (as much, how many in apples and grapes), folic acid (150 g of a water-melon contain daily need of an organism for this vitamin), RR, Page. In a water-melon there is more than potassium, than in any other product. According to the content of iron to a water-melon concedes only to lettuce leaves and spinach. Also its pulp contains such vital minerals, as calcium, sodium, phosphorus.
Large quantity of the bakhchevy – a typical sign of summer. Don’t hurry to buy early water-melons, the probability of the content of nitrates at them is higher. Water-melons are capable to accumulate various chemical compounds. In red pulp they can concentrate in even condensed lumps of yellow color in the size 0,5-2 see. It is necessary to delete such sites. It is not necessary to cut out a piece upon water-melon purchase, differently in pulp from a dirty crust causative agents of enteric infections can get. And here to choose a ripe and sweet fruit – the whole science:
Rule 1. The real water-melon should be large. All polosatiki don’t approach less average size!!! For large (the Astrakhan grades) proportions such: the weight more than 5 kg – a water-melon, is less – berry. But be afraid of too big or too small water-melons. The fruit in these cases received or many fertilizers, or on the contrary.
Rule 2. Color of a crust of a water-melon should be the most contrast. Dark, almost black strips say that the fruit received many nutrients. The intensive and high-grade metabolism was well shined and had, having ripened, it, first of all, was disconnected from a melon field, the tail dried up itself, instead of was torn off. Light sites began to be allocated as a spot and a strip. Contrast strips say that this copy and "ate" and "got warm". There is a speech about "our" striped: "Astrakhan", "Stavropol", "Kherson", "Volgograd" and "Kazakhstan". Remember, the crust of a water-melon should be the most contrast.
Rule 3. Internal fabrics of a core at a healthy water-melon not friable, even at the candied. Some squeeze a water-melon and listen, cracks or not, but this test in most cases misleads. The best test which can’t neither be forged nor to spoil – a water-melon resonance at its pokhlopyvaniye: a water-melon put on a palm of the left hand, the right hand puts ricocheting slaps on its side. From top to down, from below up. The water-melon should be given in the left hand. Remember, the Water-melon at a pokhlopyvaniye should resound.
Rule 4. The light speck on which the water-melon lay, should be the most orange, instead of yellow color.
Rule 5. If the fruit internally already ripened, at it the tail, first of all, dries up. It is necessary to pay attention not to a tail, and a place of its transition to a water-melon. Remember, not the tail, and transition from a tail to a water-melon should be in the form of a dry button.
Rule 6. The ripe water-melon is always covered with a firm cuticle which can’t be pierced a nail. If the nail of a forefinger climbs in a water-melon peel as it is easy, as in a green cucumber – a water-melon yet mature. An additional method – strongly to rub a water-melon a finger in one place and to smell. If smells as a new-mown grass – not mature.
Rule 7. Don’t buy the sour water-melons which have turned sour or nearly. Special attention turn on absence of vibration. Don’t buy soft and dryabny water-melons.
Rule 8. The ripe water-melon doesn’t happen unduly heavy. In an ideal can come home, having bought two water-melons, to lower in a bath with water. That plunges less, is riper. Exception: water-melons with an internal cavity come across. They it is easier. But, as a rule, seldom happen not mature. Pay attention that some is obvious not on the size heavier, and some on the contrary. Take, that is easier than that, it and riper. Than the water-melon is larger and easier, as a rule, it is riper than subjects.
We hope, our councils will help you to choose a ripe, tasty and sweet water-melon.
(On magazine materials Real owner)