How to pick a Black Beauty watermelon? A few practical selection tips

The Black Beauty watermelon is a variety of watermelon with an elongated oval fruit and a relatively small size. Its rind is deep blackish-green with indistinct stripes, and the rind is thin yet tough. The flesh is tender and juicy, generally sweeter than other watermelon varieties, and the flesh is also firmer than that of other varieties. Let us take a look below at how to pick a Black Beauty watermelon!

How to pick a Black Beauty watermelon?

1. When picking a Black Beauty watermelon, you can look at the outer skin. If the skin is relatively smooth and part of the bottom side is yellowish, it is a good melon. If there is fuzz on the surface and the color is dull, do not buy it.

2. When picking a Black Beauty watermelon, you can flick the rind with your hand. If it makes a "peng peng" sound, it is a ripe melon. If it makes a dang dang sound or other sounds, do not buy it either.

3. When picking a Black Beauty watermelon, if the fruit stalk is green, it is relatively fresh and naturally ripened. If the stalk is dark brown and has no fuzz either, it means it was picked before it was ripe, and the quality is especially poor.

4. When picking a Black Beauty watermelon, choose one with good symmetry at both ends. If it is big at the head and small at the tail, or small at the head and big at the tail, do not buy it, because a watermelon with an asymmetrical shape is also of poor quality, either not sweet or not naturally ripened.

What are the benefits of eating watermelon?

1. Beauty and skin care: Watermelon contains citrulline, alanine, glutamic acid, arginine, malic acid, phosphoric acid, as well as sugars, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, and these components of watermelon are most easily absorbed by the skin, with very good effects on moisturizing, sun protection and whitening of facial skin.

2. Diuretic effect: Watermelon has a diuretic effect, and together with its high water content, eating watermelon increases urine output, thereby reducing bile pigment content and keeping the bowels open, which has a certain effect on treating jaundice. In addition, it can help excrete salt from the body and relieve edema and other conditions.

3. Relieving fatigue: The potassium rich in watermelon can quickly replenish the potassium that is easily lost with sweat in summer, avoiding the muscle weakness and fatigue caused by this. Moreover, potassium is also one of the elements necessary for beautiful legs, and eating watermelon often will give you a beautiful leg shape.

4. Promoting fluid production and relieving summer heat: Watermelon is a food and drink that can nourish and tone the body, because it contains a large amount of water, and it is suitable for people with heatstroke and fever, and those who are thirsty with excessive sweating. When thirsty, sweating heavily and feeling irritable, eating a piece of watermelon will immediately improve the symptoms.

5. Anti-inflammatory and blood pressure lowering: Watermelon has the effect of treating nephritis and lowering blood pressure, because the potassium salts in watermelon can eliminate inflammation of the kidneys, the enzymes in it can convert insoluble protein into soluble protein to increase the nutrition of nephritis patients, and the glycosides in watermelon have a blood pressure lowering effect.

What are the taboos of eating watermelon?

1. People with incomplete kidney function who eat too much watermelon will, because of taking in too much water and being unable to excrete it in time, not only worsen edema but also easily induce acute heart failure.

2. Diabetics who eat too much watermelon in a short time will not only have elevated blood sugar, and those with more severe conditions may also develop acidosis due to metabolic disorders, and may even endanger their lives.

3. People with oral ulcers who eat more watermelon will have too much of the water needed for healing the oral ulcers excreted, thereby aggravating yin deficiency and internal heat, making the course of the disease prolonged and difficult to heal.

4. Watermelon is a cold, raw food, and eating too much of it will damage the spleen and stomach, leading to poor appetite, indigestion and reduced gastrointestinal resistance, causing abdominal bloating and diarrhea.

5. When watermelon is eaten in large amounts, its abundant water content will dilute gastric juice in the stomach, causing indigestion or diarrhea.

6. Watermelon that has spoiled cannot be eaten, and it easily causes gastrointestinal disease and diarrhea.

7. Watermelon has the effect of clearing internal heat, and eating watermelon in the early stage of a cold will worsen the cold or prolong its course.

8. The constitution of postpartum women is relatively weak, and traditional Chinese medicine holds that eating too much watermelon will be excessively cold and damage the spleen and stomach.

9. The large amount of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive juices in the stomach, and eating it before or after meals will affect the digestion and absorption of food.

10. Although eating iced watermelon on a hot day has a very good effect on relieving summer heat, it is very irritating to the stomach and easily causes damage to the spleen and stomach.

11. Watermelon easily spoils in a high-temperature environment, and eating watermelon that has been opened for too long and contaminated by germs will lead to gastrointestinal infectious diseases.