How To Choose A Red-Ripe And Useful Watermelon?

Watermelon boom is usually expected in August and September. This fruit is not actually a fruit, but a berry.

Still, it doesn’t prevent watermelon from being tasty, and, moreover, it is not really expensive. Therefore, few deny the pleasure to eat it to satiety. However, despite the great demand for watermelons, they often stay both on supermarket shelves and ordinary markets for a long time, for sellers often process the delicious berry with various chemicals to make it stay fresh longer. WeLoveUA team decided to give you some piece of advice in case you want to taste a red-ripe fruit without nitrates and other impurities.

1. When choosing watermelon, first of all, pay attention to how it looks. The fruit must be free of scratches and cracks. Its cover has to be holistic. This will indicate the absence of any interventions in its maturing.
2. Ripe and tasty watermelon will crack under compression, but if you knock on it, it thuds. Empty sounds produced by watermelon without cracking indicates that it is likely to contain chemical products.
3. Delicious watermelon will have a clearly defined picture striped fruit.
4. Peduncle of a watermelon should be dry, and a yellow spot on would indicate that a watermelon lied on the ground and is already ripe.
5. The top layer of a watermelon should be shiny and matte, without any plaque.
6. A watermelon should not be too large and heavy.
7. And one more feature of a red-ripe watermelon is that the top layer is easy to strip off with your nail.
8. The flesh of a watermelon must not consist of light stripes and yellow shades; neither should it have a purple shade.
9. The most likely way to determine a watermelon with nitrates is to mix its juice with water. If the water is opaque, it indicates that a watermelon is good, but if it has become pink or gained a red tint, then it is a watermelon laced with plenty of nitrates.

You should also remember that every seller must have certain documents indicating the quality of goods, given to him after checking the quality of the watermelons in a special laboratory. A seller must present these documents on request of every customer. So do not hesitate to ask for documents and choose a watermelon carefully, for chemical poisoning would have a very bad impact on your health.