How to eat cantaloupe? Can pregnant women eat it? What are the cultivation techniques?

Cantaloupe, also known as Huo Ginseng fruit, is delicate and multi-seeded, gelatinous like cucumbers and sweet in taste. although it is not so common, it is also loved by many people. So how to eat cantaloupe? Can pregnant women eat it? What are the cultivation techniques?

How to eat cantaloupe

Cantaloupe, also known as African horn melon. It has a yellow skin, thorns all over the body, and green fruit inside. The taste of cantaloupe is similar to that of cucumber and zucchini, or a mixture of banana, cucumber and lemon.

Cantaloupe is not very common on our side. It is native to the Kalahari Desert in Africa and is now grown in California and New Zealand.

1. When eating cantaloupe, you can cut the top and insert a straw to suck it directly, or you can add honey to mix. It is a rare natural drink with perfect flavor.

two。 Wash the cantaloupe, peel off the skin, cut the horned melon into thin slices or small cubes, or cut it in pairs, and then use a spoon to dig out the mashed fruit to eat.

3. Peel the cantaloupe in a juicer and beat it into juice, then add a few drops of lemon juice, lime juice, and a little sugar, which will have a special effect on dry mouth transplantation, which tastes like orange liqueur.

4. Cantaloupe melon can also be made into a great salad dressing, can also be used instead of vinegar, the taste is very delicious.

5. Dig out the fruit of the cantaloupe, mash the fruit mud, and add sauce, soup, salad, sherbet and yogurt to eat.

Can pregnant women eat cantaloupe?

1. Expert answer: pregnant women can eat horned melon. It is good for pregnant women to eat fruit, but they should eat it in moderation. Thorn melon flesh, taste sweet, cold non-toxic, heat-clearing diuretic, thirst, can treat heat, fever, heatstroke, thirst, adverse urination, mouth and nose sores.

The main results are as follows: (1) Cangjiao melon contains a lot of carbohydrates and citric acid, and it is rich in water, which can relieve summer heat, relieve thirst and relieve annoyance.

(2) the enzyme in cantaloupe can convert insoluble protein into soluble protein, which can help kidney patients to absorb nutrients.

(3) cucurbitacin B from the pedicel of Citrus angustifolia can protect the liver and alleviate chronic liver injury.

(4) Modern studies have found that cantaloupe has the effect of killing Ascaris lumbricoides, filariasis and so on.

(5) the cantaloupe is rich in nutrition and can supplement the energy and nutrients needed by the human body.

two。 Precautions for pregnant women to eat cantaloupe

(1) to the right amount, eat too much is easy to get diabetes. It has a certain effect on the fetus.

(2) do not eat cold, pregnant women should not eat too cold fruit.

(3) try to peel and eat, the normal cantaloupe will not be poisonous, but now the cantaloupe planted by farmers will spread a certain amount of pesticides, coupled with incomplete cleaning, there may be residual pesticides on it.

(4) the boy in the cantaloupe had better not eat. Eating too much will sometimes cause diarrhea.

(5) pregnant women with deficiency of spleen and stomach and abdominal distension should avoid food. Patients with a history of hematemesis and hemoptysis, gastric ulcers and heart disease should not eat cantaloupe.

Third, cultivation techniques of cantaloupe.

1. Seed treatment

Before sowing, it is necessary to carry out simple disinfection treatment, low temperature or variable temperature treatment, trace element soaking and so on. After treatment, the seeds were accelerated to germinate under the condition of 28 ℃ and 30 minutes, and germinated in about 24 hours. The seeds should be washed 2 times and 3 times to remove the substances that inhibit germination and promote gas exchange.

two。 Seedbed configuration

The formula of Cijiao melon seedling bed soil is 30% cooked pig and cow dung, 20% aged furnace ash, 10% mature dung and 40% peat soil, and the other formula is 50% mature animal manure, 10% aged furnace ash, 20% mature dung and 20% peat ash. 4 kg of calcium superphosphate, 1 kg of plant ash and 1 kg of ammonium nitrate were added to the mixed nutrient soil per square meter.

3. Seedling stage management

The seeds that had been germinated were sown in a sandbox, sowed with bottom water and then covered with sand 1 cm, covered with agricultural film or woven cloth to keep warm, and the temperature in the sandbox was kept at 28 ℃. After 24 hours, seedlings emerged one after another. When 80% of the seeds were unearthed, the temperature should be properly reduced to prevent overgrowth, 20: 25 ℃ during the day and 16: 17 ℃ at night. Another method is to directly sow the germinated cantaloupe seeds in the seedling bed soil made of peat soil and soil in the heat preservation shed, and transplant directly when the seedlings grow to 10 to 20 centimeters, and the temperature control is the same as the above method.

4. Transfer seedlings in time

The best time for transplanting cucurbit melon seedlings to the nutrient bowl should be carried out at normal times when the cotyledons are fully expanded, that is, the 4th day after the cotyledons are opened, and about the 8th day after sowing is the best time to move the seedlings. At this time, the nutrients stored in the seeds have been basically consumed and begin to rely on the roots to absorb nutrients for plant growth. If the transplant is too late, the seedling raising period is prolonged, the cotyledons are prone to lack of fertilizer after full flattening, and the seedlings are prone to aging. This is a long-term phenomenon in today's production. At the same time, the times of raising seedlings should not be too much, and it is appropriate to take one time, and the seeds can also be directly seeded in the seedling bowl without moving seedlings to reduce root injury.

5. Seedling management

When the first real leaf of cantaloupe is unfolded and enters the seedling stage, the soil should maintain a certain humidity and a high low temperature (15020 ℃). According to the nutritional status, 0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate can be used as external topdressing, or carbon dioxide gas topdressing, which should be carried out one hour after sunrise in the morning, and the temperature can be rapidly raised to 28030 ℃.

6. Planting management

The cultivation of cantaloupe is generally planted with 600,700 plants per mu, and it takes about three and a half months to four months from sowing to harvesting. The transplanting temperature should reach more than 15 ℃ in spring when cultivated in open field, and it can be planted in early autumn in greenhouse. Medium pollination is needed for cultivation in greenhouse and greenhouse, because Cangjiao melon is a monoecious plant, but male flowers generally bloom a few days before female flowers.

7. Field management

Cantaloupe is not resistant to cold and is suitable for growing in hot and dry climates. it has strong disease resistance, but it is easy to occur in high wet and rainy environment. Water twice a week before the first flowering stage to replenish 40% of water evaporation and 80% of water evaporation after the first flowering stage.

8. Post-harvest storage

Cantaloupe is extremely resistant to storage and can be kept fresh for up to 6 months in a dry environment of 17-24 ℃. Its golden appearance is extremely beautiful, in addition to eating, it can also be used for indoor display, both generous and beautiful, after picking back to apply wax on the surface of the fruit to prevent the loss of water from the skin.