Season watermelons: how to choose?

The sign of August - the mountain of watermelons sold. The season of delicious and healthy fruit have already begun. However, experts warn that before mid-August, watermelon is better not to buy!

Why is still too early to buy a watermelon?

Early watermelons, which begin trading in July, most often, "thermos" - grown from seedlings under the film. In these fruits, experts say, can accumulate a lot of nitrates. The best watermelon - one that matured at the plantation under the sun. But these are not kept pace until August. Watermelon is better not to buy before mid-August, so much less likely to try to unsafe health goodies.

How to choose a watermelon?

Watermelon should be large enough, but not too heavy. The larger and easier to watermelon, so he sang.

The hill monosort watermelons avoid very large (too large watermelon overfed with fertilizers) and small - will likely unripe.

Click fingers over crust. A ripe watermelon resonates when tapped and crunches when squeezed.

Pay attention to the tail, and the transition from the tail to the watermelon - they must be dried up.

The smaller the bright spot on the side of the watermelon, so he sang.

In good ripe watermelon rind is easily scratched with a fingernail.

Safety rules, or how not to poison

So, you know,   How to choose a watermelon . But that is not all. There are warnings that will help avoid accidental poisoning.

You can not eat watermelon with a crack or having a sour smell, the fruits very easily poisoned.

Before eating watermelon, conduct a little experiment. Cut a piece of flesh and place in a bowl with cold water. Porozovevshaya water - a sign of the chemical filling.

A good watermelon flesh is bright and sweet, and the veins on a cut in it - white. Yellow indicate large amounts of nitrates.

Do not have a habit to gnaw the flesh of watermelon to cover. Immediately under the skin and in the tail have accumulated a lot of harmful substances. Babies better to give only the pulp from the center of watermelon.

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