Watermelon

Watermelon originated in Africa but widely historic Asia. It is a climbing annual, dicotyledonous, herbaceous, rough, with stem creeping fitted hair tendrils and leaves of five deep lobes, flowers yellow, large, unisexual, the female have the gynoecium of three carpels, the male with five stamens. The fruit is large, pepo, meaty and juicy (more than 90% of the watermelon or watermelon is water), with many seeds, almost spherical, greenish, flesh pink or red – for the antioxidant lycopene also present in tomatoes- usually with a sweet taste (more rarely yellow and bitter) very refreshing and appreciated for being rich in water and salts; important for weight loss diets because they contain few calories.

The seeds are rich in vitamin E, have been used in folk medicine, are also consumed as food and toast the pulp is prepared in Mexico a type of fresh water. It is a sweet fruit that grows in the soil of almost spherical fruit or apepinado. It is one of the world’s largest fruit can reach more than 4 kilos. Its texture is smooth with no porosity, green in two or more tones. On the inside is juicy and watery, usually red or pink and with seeds that can grow to 1 cm, brown, black or white.