Watermelons are the perfect snack on hot days.
These characteristics tell you whether the fruit is ripe and sweet.
Summer, sun, do you fancy something refreshing?
Nothing beats a fresh, chilled piece of melon on hot days.
Watermelons
contain a lot of water, but also contain good ingredients such as vitamins.
And of course they are nice and sweet and delicious - even children don't say no to fruit.
Whether as dessert, as a snack at the lake or in the form of a watermelon and feta salad *: Melons are simply a great fruit - wonderfully refreshing on warm days.
When shopping, you want to be sure to get a
ripe, tasteful specimen
.
With the following tips you can easily identify the perfect watermelon.
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When buying watermelon, look out for a few features to get hold of a good fruit.
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Ripe and sweet: These are the characteristics that you can recognize as the perfect watermelon
Where the watermelon lay on the ground while waking, it has a large faded stain.
Pay attention
to the
color of
the
stain on the melon skin
: a white to light green stain indicates little taste - a yellow or orange stain promises an intense taste.
Check the
color of the stem
: a green stem means that the fruit is still immature and has been cut off too early.
A brown, dry stem, on the other hand, is found on ripe melons.
Do you want to buy a particularly sweet melon?
Notice the
brown interweaving on the shell
.
If there are few interweaving, the pulp is not so sweet, more interweaving, which looks like a net pattern, promises a very sweet watermelon.
There are actually
genders in watermelons
.
Round melons are feminine, taste very sweet and have fewer seeds.
Elongated oval melons are masculine, more watery and less sweet.
Compare weight
: Check the weight of different melons of the same size in the supermarket.
The heavier specimen is more mature.
With these tips, nothing should go wrong when shopping for watermelons.
And did you know that you can even eat the peel of the watermelon?
Here you find out how this works.
Enjoy the summer!
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Did you know?
These foods can be frozen
Did you know?
These foods can be frozen
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