this is very tasty

The watermelon is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family,are fruits like cantaloupe, pumpkin and similar plants that grow on vines on the ground.

Watermelons can be round, oblong or spherical in shape; light to dark green in color, with white mottling stripes. Its flesh are commonly bright red in color but there are also other varieties where its flesh are dark brown, orange, yellow, pink or even white.

Watermelon is another of my all-time favorite. Not only is it cooling for the body in our tropical climate, it is excellent for flushing out the kidney and bladder, taking out waste materials.

As the red watermelon juice can be very sweet on its own, I usually juice them together with the rind as well. Rind is the whitish green part of the watermelon, between the skin and the red flesh. This part of the fruit contains the highest level of quality minerals and chlorophyll, and should not be discarded.


Nutritional Benefits

The water content in watermelon is extremely high at 92%. It is rich in beta-carotene, folic acid, vitamin C, vitamin B5 and smaller amounts of B1, B2, B3 and B6.

This big fruit is a rich source of essential minerals like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and smaller amounts of copper, iron and zinc.

As in tomatoes, watermelon is loaded with lycopene, the red carotenoid pigment that gives it the red color. This important anti-oxidant is powerful in neutralizing harmful free radicals in our body.

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Health Benefits

Watermelon is basically very cleansing, alkalinizing, diuretic and mineralizing. It is very effective in promoting intestinal elimination, keeping the body free from toxic wastes.

Its juice is easily digestible and are completely absorbed for all its minerals, providing much needed nutrients to the body.

The alkalinizing effect maintains the acid-alkaline balance in the body, neutralizing the toxic condition of the body resulting from excessive intake of acid-forming foods.

Drawing from the rich anti-oxidant and beta-carotene, the health effects of watermelon juice are immense.

Asthma: The powerful anti-oxidant in watermelon reduces toxic matters in the body, that in turn reduces asthma attacks.

Arthritis: The rich beta-carotene and vitamin C content in this big fruit do wonders in quenching inflammation that contributes to conditions like osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis.

Bladder problems: Its cleansing and natural diuretic effect is totally healing for kidney and bladder problems

Cholesterol: Watermelon juice is healthful in preventing cholesterol from clogging arteries and can increase HDL, the good cholesterol, reducing the risks of cardiovascular diseases.

Constipation: Drink a big glass of watermelon juice. It is very effective in aiding the elimination of wastes. Consuming plenty of this red juice will do a lot of good.

Fluid retention: Its diuretic action helps to eliminate excess fluids from the body, reducing water retention, especially for women during their monthly menstruation cycle and in pregnant women.

Heart attack: The combination of folic acid and the other essential vitamins in this fruit plays an important role in reducing the risks of heart attacks, strokes and colon cancer.

Itchiness: As watermelon juice cleanses the body of toxic wastes, it also greatly reduces itchiness that result from toxicity of acidosis.

Prostate Cancer: Lycopene (from red watermelons) has been extensively researched for its anti-oxidant and cancer-preventing properties. It is reported to be especially protective against prostate cancer.

Skin Blemish: Use watermelon externally by applying a small piece liberally on your face. Leave for ten minutes, then wash off with warm water, followed by a splash of cold water.

kind of sweet. but has weird texture

Only ok when its like really hot out side. Never to be served on a plate. Always eat with your hands.

I Like it everyonce in a while, with lots of salt..

NO.

I love the taste of watermelon , but the last 2 - 3 x's I ate any , it just didn't agree w/ me

Great with salt. The seeds are the biggest problem.

I love watermelon,and I put salt on it,it helps the flavor.

i love the melons!!

Delicious. Personal taste. Probably rather healthy. What a random thing to review!

It's gross and watery and disgusting. I hate watermelon.

LOVE watermelon. The best way to eat it is over the kitchen sink!

i like the square ones...

I love watermelon.

I love watermelons they are sweet and refreshing on a hot summers day to me watermelon and summer go hand in hand.

Over-rated! Watery, messy, and do not like rifling through the seeds.

Seedless is best!

My family is from Florida and they have the Watermelon Festival every year and one year way back when my parents were teens my mother won the beauty pageant and became the Watermelon Queen. So Watermelon is kind of in our blood. My dad likes salt on top of his watermelon...I prefer sugar. But all in all I just don't understand Watermelon Flavored Candy...doesn't taste anything like Watermelon! Whats up with that?

Awesome, my son Sean goes nuts over this fruit.

it the best on a hot summer day

I eat a lot of this and my kids love it. I don't like watermelon with seeds and I don't like sticky floors and children's faces that I have to clean up, otherwise this would be a five.

MMMMMM GOOD

Cold watermelon in neat little pieces. Yumm yumm.

prevent cancer

Summer! Love it!

its good

i love it

I love Watermelon. Oh, so juicy! BUT IT HAS TO BE SEEDLESSS!

my favorite 1

On a hot summer's day, there is little finer than this.

Except for several cold beer, or a similar number of iced gin and tonics, together with a fine and witty woman, and......

Oh to hell with it. All you really need is the woman.


UPDATE:

Loses a star due to the recent trend among some Canadian football fans to wear them as a hat.

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High maintenence (sp?). . .can be good- but it's sure a lot of work. . .and those damn seeds. . .

Scores points for allowing you to spit projectiles at your smaller and weaker siblings.

Never cared for watermelon.

i've got ten vines of red crescant & five vines of moon& stars growin' on me property as we speak, who's got the vodka, they almost ready...

Love it!

the seedless kinds are wonderful!

I LOVE WATERMELON!

Water Melon in very best if we take it in the season of summer. It is a very cool fruit and ideal for thursty.
In India it is a commom fruit that is available in all the places in the country.

YUMMY!!

I love the tip and it's great at summer

i dont like watermellon because of the tecture and some of the taste

I love water melons. Until the advent of those small, slightly-larger-than-a-honeydews, the absence of watermelons in the market signaled the end of Summer for me. A sad time...

But now you can have watermelon all year round. And to tell you the truth, those little ones are fantastic. I'm eating one right now. But, that's not why I'm here. I'm here to teach you how to choose a good, ripe watermelon, so that, even if you won't flip a few bucks for the small ones this Winter, you'll be armed and dangerous when the next round of Summer melons become available.

Here's some Old Wives Tales about watermelons. First, there is no such thing a seedless watermelon. The seeds are just bred smaller. Second, while you can smell a canteloupe, you can't judge a watermelon by its aroma. Third, "thumping" a melon is futile. They all will sound the same (as if you can actually remember the way that last great melon sounded). So, here's how to choose a ripe watermelon: When they start on the vine, they hang in the air. As they grow, they lower to the ground, until they find their final resting place. When they begin to ripen, the part of the melon that comes into contact with the Earth will begin to turn yellow. When they are ripe, there will be a large yellow/white blotch on the bottom. THAT'S a ripe melon. The thing to remember is that melons cannot ripen AFTER they are picked...they only ripen on the vine (unlike tomatoes or peaches, for example). So, when you're out shopping, choose the melon with the largest yellow/white blotch on it. That's the ripest one.

Another Public Service Announcement from the Melon Advisory Board.

(PS: If you're growing your own, you'll want to wait until ALL of the white on the bottom is gone and the colors on the top have started blending together.)

I love watermelon and really get excited when I see it out in the produce section. It is only available for a very short time a year and I think this makes it even more delicious for me. I mainly love to eat it plain in slices or chunks but have had it in a fruit salad accompanied by grapes and berries. It is very juicy and this makes it very refreshing on a hot summer day. It is definitely one of the foods that makes summer more enjoyable.

i loveeee watermelon:)

Punch and Juicy tip

for a fruiti-licious treat ..... why not Juice with Strawberries ,pour over crushed ice with a shot of ginger and you'll be in melon heaven....

for more tips email me on: punchandjuicy@yahoo.co.uk

... makes more mess than it's worth.

I have watermelon plans growing-Sugar Babies.

Great thirst quencher.

watermelon is my fav.!!!!

Very yummy and healthy!