Nine steps to teach you to pick the best watermelon

Summer heat, watermelon is the favorite fruit for everyone to cool off! But of the thousands of watermelons, how can one identify the most desirable watermelon?

Here are 9 steps to choose the watermelon that suits you best!

1. Look at the surface of the melon skin smooth, clear pattern, clear lines, the bottom of the yellow, is cooked melon; the surface of hair, dark, pale spots and lines is not clear, is not ripe melon.

2. Listening to sounds and fingers playing with melons to hear the sound of "squeaking" like a slap on the chest, you are familiar with melons; when you hear the sound of "dangdong", like the sound of the forehead, it is not ripe yet. If you hear it, The sound of "squeaking" is a bit like taking a tummy sound. Listening to something stuffy and turbid, it is an overripe melon.

3. Look at the cucurbit green, is cooked melon; dark brown, hair off, curved and crisp, no need to tip yellow withered, is unripe picked on the melon; melon stalk has withered, is "dead vine melon," low quality.

4. Look at the ends of the head and tail symmetrically, the umbilicus and the Gudi depression deeper, full of four weeks is a good melon; head and tail small or thick tail, is a poor quality melon.

5, thinner than the elastic melon skin, with a finger pressure fragile, is cooked melon; is the nail plan to split, soft melon, is too ripe melon.

6. It is ripe melons that are hand-tied, and those that are sinking are melons.

7. Try to put specific gravity into the water to float up, it is ripe melon; sink is raw melon.

8. Look at the size of the same species, better than small. If you look at the listing situation, before most of the watermelons are not on the market, you have to buy small and medium-sized melons. The probability of maturity is greater, and the probability of maturity of large watermelons is lower. By the same token, when the large-scale watermelon market, it is not appropriate to buy small melons, buy big melon, because the small watermelon may be the early varieties (early watermelon) in the loss of vine melon.

9. The shape of the melon body is neat and well-balanced, and the growth is normal and the quality is good; if the melon body is deformed, the growth is abnormal and the quality is poor.