Melons...

MELONS - do you also eat the whites of the water melons? well, it can be eaten actually... especially when blending, one can just peel off the outer skin; and the rest....all inside the blender, seeds and white or red flesh.....


Talking about melons…..yummy..yummy…. just good food, is it a fruit or a vegetable? Okay, it doesn’t matter much. Melons are melons…. Simple as that, but best of all, one can eat it raw or cooked. Be in a habit of having melons several times a week. It is a terrific fruit and vegetable. Best taken raw too.


Melons include pumpkins, watermelons, white gourds, bitter gourds, loofahs, ficus tikauas and cucumbers. They have great importance for clinical therapy. Pumpkins and watermelons contain an average of 4 mg% and 3 mg% of vitamin C, and 2.4 mg% and 0.17 mg% carotene respectively.


Pumpkins also contain 20.9 mg% of citruline and small amounts of vitamin B and glucose. Pumpkin seeds expel tapeworms and ascaris, kill blood fluke. It can also paralyze the middle and posterior segments of beef and pork tapeworms.


Watermelons also contain apple sugar, glucose and some minerals. And the skin and pulp of watermelons can produce a diuretic and hypotensive effect. This is actually a delicious fruit that is colorful and sweet fruit.


The content of vitamin C in white gourds is as high as 16 mg%, and they also contain a small amount of protein, sugar and sodium salts. Because of the low content of sodium salts, it can be used to promote urination and resolve edema in patients of nephritis.


Bitter gourds contain glycoside, 5-serotonin and many amino acids. A reducing blood sugar effect produced by bitter gourds was found in animal experiments, but the blood sugar level of diabetic patients could not be reduced in clinical trials.


Cucumbers contain glucose, fructose, xylose, rutin, vitamin B2 and vitamin C. The bitter taste in cucumber is due to the presence of cucurbitacin A, B, C and D. What do you think about cucumber? Cucumber is just such a cheap vegetable and some don’t even give a glance at this wonderful melon. That is a mistake, my dears, no, no, no…. you better change your opinion a bit…


So, by reading the above, one will be at least more aware of these wonderful melons of all types that come with all the goodness. I am keen in eating melons… I used to call it 'gua' in mandarin. I always recommend 3 'gua' for heaty relief for those who have consumed too much fried foods.


be sharing with you more on these wonderful melons...