How to choose a melon? Tips and Secrets

Melon crops have that specificity, that by their appearance it is difficult to guess about ripeness and safety of a fruit. Watermelons and melons can look like in the picture, but in actual fact are either immature, or, worse, rotten. The trader, of course, can give you a piece of one fruit, assuring that all the fruits on the watermelon collapse are the same, but this is not a fact. Even if the harvest was collected at the same time from the same field, among the berries necessarily there are immature or damaged during transportation. Therefore it is important to know how to choose the right melon.

Variety

It is best to buy fruits at the height of their season, that is, in August-September. Central Asian melons are very tasty, besides they appear much earlier than domestic ones. Also good are imported from Ukraine melons. The main exporters are the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions, the steppe Crimea. In our country melons are grown in the south. The best grades are the oblong "torpedo", the round and yellow "collective farmer", the greenish "Galileo", the fragrant "Altai". We learned how to grow and import seeds - among them we can call "cantaloupe" - it is bright orange with striped skin melon. Price On melons (from 10 rubles per kilo) we traditionally depends not on the grade, but on the season. Early fruits will cost you more.

Smell

Indicator ripeness of the fruit is its aroma. How to choose melon By smell? Sniff at the junction of the pulp with a tail or "spout" (where there was a flower before). If you feel a clear delicate aroma, then you have a completely ripe fruit in your hands. But if the smell is not felt - the melon is not yet ripe. The higher the temperature of the surrounding air, the stronger the fetus exudes its aroma. This should be taken into account when choosing fruit in supermarkets.

How to choose melon by sound and color

It, certainly, not a water-melon, and to click on it and to knock it is not necessary - damage a thin peel. It is enough to slap a hand lightly on the fruit. If you hear a deaf sound, the fruit is ripe, and if it is crispy, a bit crispy, like a ripe watermelon - no. But the coloring of the peel eloquently tells us about whether the fruit was damaged during transportation or storage. Only one small round spot is allowed a little lighter than the melon's main color. At this point the fruit lay on the ground and, naturally, the skin did not receive its portion of the sun. But if the whole melon is covered with dark, slightly concave spots, most likely, it is spoiled. Through a thin skin easily put in putrefactive bacteria, which quickly spoil the flesh. Such a place in the garbage dump.

How to choose a melon for elasticity

Take it with both hands and squeeze it lightly. A good melon should lightly spring, like a handball. If the fruit feels like a hard watermelon, it is not ripe. And if on the skin after the pressing remains a fingerprint, the melon is overripe or too long waited for its buyer. The "collective farmer" should have a smooth skin, and the "torpedo" is rough, with furrows. Lightly scrape the skin. In a ripe fruit, you will be able to do it without difficulty, but the immature will have a little glossy skin.

How to choose a melon "on the floor"

This is nothing more than a sign, because the fruits of sex do not. But in the people it is believed that the melon "girl" is more delicious and juicier than the "boy". How to distinguish them? The fine half of the stem - the tail - is thick and dry. The trace from the flower - the so-called spout - should be large and soft.