How to choose green cantaloupe

Cantaloupe is a common fruit in daily life, especially in hot summer, cantaloupe is more popular. So how to choose green cantaloupe? What kind of cantaloupe is sweeter?

First, how to choose green cantaloupe?

1. Look at the skin color: different varieties of cantaloupe look different, but the maturity of cantaloupe can be judged by the color at the top of the cantaloupe. Generally, cantaloupes with green or sesame skins turn white at the top when they mature, while cantaloupes with yellow skins turn bright yellow at the top. Is it easy to tell.

two。 Look at the stalk: when the striated cantaloupe is ripe, its stalk will be slightly sunken, and it is relatively smooth, and you can see very dense reticulation. If it is a cantaloupe without reticulation, the stalk will become brightly colored when it is ripe, and the spots will become obvious and the surface will be relatively smooth.

3. Look at tendrils: no matter what kind of cantaloupe it is, the tendrils on the node position will obviously appear withered and yellow when it is ripe. When selecting cantaloupe, you can tell whether the cantaloupe is mature according to the leaves on the node.

4. Look at the scar: many people will choose good-looking cantaloupe when choosing cantaloupe. If it is well protected, it will be delicious. In fact, although the scar on the cantaloupe looks ugly, the cantaloupe is very sweet and tastes good, so the uglier the melon is, the more delicious it is.

2. Nutritional value of Hami melon

1. Bitter toxin: modern medical research has found that the stalks of melons such as cantaloupe contain bitter toxins, which can stimulate the mucous membrane of the gastric wall to cause vomiting. An appropriate amount of oral administration can provide emergency food poisoning without being absorbed by the stomach and intestines. It's a good emetic.

two。 Vitamins and minerals: the content of vitamins in cantaloupe meat is no less than that of other fruits. In the fresh flesh of cantaloupe, the vitamin content is 4 to 7 times higher than that of watermelon, 6 times higher than that of apples and 1.3 times higher than that of apricots. These ingredients are beneficial to the work of the human heart and liver as well as the activity of the intestinal system, and promote endocrine and hematopoietic machines to enhance the digestive process.

Cantaloupe is rich in nutrition, and taste crisp and sweet, is a very good fruit, I hope you can learn to choose cantaloupe, from many melons to find delicious cantaloupe.