What's the difference between melon and cantaloupe? Is it cold or hot? How much half a kilo?

We often hear about melons and melons on the market, so what's the difference between melons and melons? Is it cold or hot? How much half a kilo? According to the relevant information, cantaloupe and melon do belong to a kind of fruit, the reason is divided into two names, on the one hand, it is regional factors, on the other hand, it is also related to the variety of muskmelon.

Introduction to muskmelon and cantaloupe

It is generally said that melons are golden and have the same lines as hot air balloons; melons are green and yellow round. Cantaloupe is a folk term for traditional thin-skinned melon, mainly in Northeast China, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi and other places. Whether it is cantaloupe or melon, it is a general term for a melon system with the same kind of characteristics. What it initially shows is a kind of regional difference. The southern region has a lot of water, short growing period, lack of light, and the fruit produced is rich in fragrance but not sweet enough, so people are accustomed to calling it "melon"; in the north, on the contrary, the fragrance is light and sweet, so it is called melon.

Melon: annual trailing herbs; stems shortly setose. Tendrils unbifurcated; petiole shortly setose; leaf blade suborbicular or reniform, 8-15 cm long and 15 cm wide, 3-7-lobed, pilose on both surfaces, shortly setose on lower veins, margin serrate. Monoecious; male flowers often fascicled, female flowers solitary; Calyx lobes subulate, Corolla yellow, lobes ovate-rectangular, acute, ca. 2 cm; stamens 3, locule S-shaped, septum apical elongation; ovary long elliptic, style very short, stigma 3, connivent. The shape and color of the fruit vary from variety to variety, the fruit is fragrant, the skin is smooth, and the seeds are dirty white. It has many varieties and great changes in fruit, which can be divided into several varieties, and horticulture can belong to several strains, among which vegetable melon, Hami melon and Bailan melon also belong to different varieties or strains. Fruits are used as fruits or vegetables; melon stalks and seeds are used medicinally.

The fruit of cantaloupe and cucurbitaceae is fleshy, with many chambers and seeds, similar to berries, but the receptacle of these fruits heal with the exocarp and often form a thick exocarp, which is specially called "melon and fruit" in classification.

There is a word difference between melon and melon, but they have different identities. For melons and fruits produced in the north, in order to prevent them from breaking after maturity due to excessive sugar content, the outer skin of melons produced in the south is generally thicker, while melons produced in the south have insufficient sugar content, are not easy to break, and their peels are thinner. This is a natural choice. Later people realized this and turned the thick-skinned melons into melons, while the thin-skinned melons were called cantaloupes.

Whether it is cantaloupe or melon, it is a general term for a melon system with the same kind of characteristics. What it initially shows is a kind of regional difference. The southern region has a lot of water, short growing period, lack of light, and the fruit produced is rich in fragrance but not sweet enough, so people are accustomed to calling it "melon"; in the north, on the contrary, the fragrance is light and sweet, so it is called melon.

Due to the hybridization between different melons in the process of long-term planting, more and more varieties of melons and melons have been derived from the north and south, coupled with the developed artificial cultivation technology and the hybridization of melons in the south and north, forming more and more melons with comprehensive characteristics, trying to achieve a fragrant and sweet effect to meet the needs of the market. As a result, gradually, the regional differences between South and North melons have been gradually flattened in the process of hybrid cultivation, and greenhouse planting technology allows southern melons to be grown in the north and northern melons in the south. Nowadays, cantaloupes and melons can no longer be discussed separately.

Distribution range of muskmelon and cantaloupe

Widely cultivated in various parts of China

(1) the semi-arid areas of the warm temperate zone of North China, including Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi and northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui to the south of the Inner Mongolia Plateau, north of the Huaihe River in the Qinling Mountains and east of the Yellow River.

(2) Meiyu area in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and other places.

(3) the northwest arid areas, including parts of Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia to the west of the Yellow River Loop.

(4) the temperate semi-arid regions of Northeast China, including Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang and most of the Inner Mongolia Plateau.

(5) Tropical areas in South China, including Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan and Taiwan.

(6) Southwest tropical humid areas, including Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. It is also widely cultivated in temperate to tropical regions of the world.

Cantaloupe originated in the tropical desert of Africa. It was spread to China along with watermelons in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It was widely planted in the Ming Dynasty and widely cultivated in all parts of China.

What are the varieties of melon and cantaloupe

The varieties of muskmelon are Japanese Tianbao, Jingtian No. 5, Yangjiao Honey, Tianmi crispy Pear, Xizhou Mi 25, Lu Houtian No.1, Jingbao, Bingtang Crispy, Tianmi No. 1 and so on. The varieties of cantaloupe are fragrant concubine, orange dew and long fragrant jade.

Nutritional value and efficacy of muskmelon and muskmelon

Melons contain nutrients such as protein, carbohydrates, carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, niacin, calcium, phosphorus and iron, as well as invertase that can convert insoluble proteins into soluble proteins.

1. Muskmelon contains a lot of carbohydrates and citric acid, and is rich in water, which can relieve summer heat, relieve thirst and relieve annoyance.

two。 The invertase in melon can convert insoluble protein into soluble protein, which can help kidney patients absorb nutrients.

3. Cucurbitacin B in muskmelon pedicel can protect liver and reduce chronic liver injury.

4. Modern research has found that melon seeds have the effect of killing roundworms, filariasis and so on.

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

Cantaloupe flesh raw food, thirst and dryness, can eliminate halitosis, but melon pedicel poisonous, raw food excessive, that is, poisoning. According to the identification of relevant experts, all kinds of cantaloupe contain rich nutrients such as malic acid, glucose, amino acid, beet eggplant, vitamin C and so on.

Are melons and melons cold or hot?

Traditional Chinese medicine confirms that muskmelon has the remarkable effect of "relieving heat, relieving thirst and promoting urination". Due to melon cold, there are hematemesis, hemoptysis, duodenal and gastric ulcers, chronic enteritis, spleen and stomach deficiency cold, cold accumulation and abdominal distension or abdominal pain and diarrhea, frequent urination, heart disease and so on. Normal and healthy people should not often eat a lot of melons, because there is a lot of water in melons, eating too much in the stomach will dilute gastric juice, causing indigestion or abdominal pain and diarrhea.

Cantaloupe is a cold fruit, it is rich in water, and sweet and juicy, has the effect of invigorating body and relieving thirst. When we have a bad appetite in summer, we can choose to eat cantaloupe to increase our appetite. As the melon sex is cold, so the spleen and stomach deficiency cold people and pregnant women do not eat too much cantaloupe, so as not to cause physical harm.

How much is melon and cantaloupe per jin?

Product Name

Market / region

Average price on July 03

Muskmelon

Dashahe vegetable Wholesale Market, Wuqing District, Tianjin

1.6 yuan / kg

Muskmelon

Hongqi Agricultural Trade Wholesale Market, Xiqing District, Tianjin

3.0 yuan / kg

Muskmelon

Jidong Fruit and vegetable Wholesale Market, Leting County, Hebei Province

0.8 yuan / kg

Muskmelon

Melon, vegetable and fruit trading market in Raoyang County, Hebei Province

1.8 yuan / kg

Muskmelon

Jiangsu Wuxi Chaoyang Market

3.7 yuan / kg

Notes on eating cantaloupe

According to the identification of relevant experts, all kinds of cantaloupes contain rich nutrients such as malic acid, glucose, amino acids, beet eggplant, vitamin C and so on. Xiangke food of cantaloupe:

1. Cantaloupe can not be eaten with balsam pear and watermelon, weak people will have diarrhea.

two。 Cantaloupe can not be eaten with chilled summer drinks, because it is both cold food, eating is not good for the health, weak people will have diarrhea.

3. Cantaloupe should not be eaten with Dabu medicinal diet first or later, which will affect the efficacy of medicinal diet.

4. Cantaloupe and durian should not be eaten together, the two are mutually exclusive, eating together can not achieve their respective efficacy.

5. Cantaloupe can not be eaten with Coptis chinensis or drugs with the same effect, because it will cause severe diarrhea.

6. Cantaloupe should not be eaten with snails, crabs and other seafood.

7. Cantaloupe should not be eaten with greasy food.

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