Watermelon – 22 interesting facts
1. How do you know that a watermelon is ripe? Truly a mystery. .. Signs that help: a dry stalk, a yellowish tinge to its skin and its mysterious echo sound when thumped…
2. in the garden we grow watermelons and cantaloupes only in the summer because they are seasonal crops.
3. Large, huge, small…. red, yellow … seeds, seedless – there are all kinds of watermelon.
4. squash is the name of the wide and glorious family of watermelons.
5. Homer describes in the Odyssey the process of preparing feta cheese. This cheese goes very well with watermelon!
6. Viagra – an Agricultural University in Texas published a study showing that watermelon might be able to replace Viagra. The organic watermelon fruit contains large amounts of Tzitrolin – an amino acid that has sedative powers and causes the dilation of blood vessels, just like Viagra. To take advantage of this fortuitous medical property, according to the study, one should eat six cups of watermelon every day…
7. Remember that you can usually keep a watermelon up to about 10 days at room temperature or in the middle of the refrigerator. If in the bottom of the refrigerator, where colder, it becomes to chalky.
8. Half of a watermelon was thrown at Demosthenes, the Roman, in the middle of a stormy debate. He thanked the thrower and placed the watermelon half on his head like a helmet.
9I. Tetrafloids – the cells of seedless watermelon seedlings we plant have four sets of chromosomes, unlike the watermelon with seeds which has two sets – difloid. The tetrafloids are plants with leaves and flowers that will not produce fruit unless pollinated by ordinary watermelon flowers. The seedless watermelon is always planted near watermelons with seeds in order to allow pollination by insects that fly from one to the other. The fruit we get has three sets of chromosomes- Trifloid, and somehow this odd number harms their ability to reproduce and you get a mule, just a watermelon without seeds.
10. it could be that birds, turtles, deer, etc, beat us to the watermelon… wild animals love watermelons J. When it is hot outside a watermelon is really a great solution for the fluid needs of this season. When we lived in Yodfat where they grew watermelons, my father would eat an entire large one every day.
11. Your kidney and bladder get a good wash and cleaning by eating a lot of watermelon.
12. Do not smash watermelons! In 2001 in Beersheva, a judge ordered the accused to not violate the rules of his probation and not smash his ex-wife’s watermelons. After the accused broke into her apartment and smashed a watermelon, he was sentenced to three months in prison.
13. The watermelon is mentioned in the Bible once (Numbers XI, E) along with the onions, garlic and zucchini that the children of Israel longed for, as they walked in the desert after their exodus from Egypt.
14. Revenge of the square. Wouldn’t it be easier to store and cut watermelon if they were square? Also, they would not roll around in the trunk on the way to the beach… Square watermelons have been grown in Japan for 20 years already. They are enclosed in boxes during the growth process and take the shape of the box. These watermelons can cost up to $200 in Japan.
15. A common US stereotype is that African Americans like to eat watermelon. Watermelon is a nutritious food and is relatively cheap and therefore was considered to be a food of the poor. Of course, people of all skin tones love it, but as usual, such facts do not affect the stereotypes.
16. Rich in lycopene, the red pigment that gives the watermelon its color. It is a strong antioxidant and effective in preventing various types of cancers.
17. "Suddenly the season ended" the closing sentence to the song by Nurit Zarhi about "the woman who lived in a watermelon" – I think the watermelon must be organic… J
One woman, lived in a very large watermelon,
She had two stools and a chair and a lamp.
She cut out a window and carved her living room, and hung a picture and put a cupboard.
And a cat to hunt the mice she raised in the corner,
And suddenly – the season ended…
Watermelon and other organic fruits have a short season…
18. In Chinchilla, Australia, every two years they hold a watermelon festival that includes watermelon related competitions such as seed spitting, watermelon skiing (on the rinds), watermelon throwing and more…
19. The Kalahari in Southern Africa is the area of origin of the watermelon. It then spread throughout Africa because of its value as a source of nutrients and fluids, both to people and to wildlife. In ancient Egypt it grew 4,000 years ago and was buried with the dead as a source of fluids and nourishment for the deceased on his journey to the next world. I guess that they did not want him to die of thirst before he arrived… J
20. The Rambam, as well as other practitioners of natural medicine and more ancient folk medicine, recommended to eat watermelon at the beginning of the meal to stimulate the appetite.
21. The record sized watermelon grown in 2005 weighed 122 kg in Hope, Arkansas, USA. This town is known for its watermelon crops and its slogan is "a bite of the good life."
22. Watermelon is very nutritious: a good source of vitamins A and C, potassium and lycopene.
To Health !!!!
Maggie and the staf
Organic vegetable baskets (draft only) :
Lettuce
Cherry tomatoes
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Peppers
Eggplants
Orange beets
Leeks
Onions
In larger organic vegetable baskets also :
hot peppers
Potatoes
Pumpkin
And mint
Organic fruit baskets ;
Pears
Melon
In larger fruit baskets ;
Grapes
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