Melons, note when eating melon, Those who should not eat melon

It is currently a melon season so you can catch this fruit in the market or any fruit shop. According to former colonel, general medical doctor Bui Hong Minh (Former Chairman of Ba Dinh Oriental Medicine Association, Hanoi), in Oriental medicine, melon has sweet taste, cold calculation, refreshing effect, except disturbance, ventilation, diuretic, during hot summer days, melon can prevent sun damage.

Although it is a very healthy and popular fruit in the summer, however, when eating melon, you need to pay attention to some things that do not affect your health.

Choose clean, safe melon

Because melon is easy to break down, traders have pickled melon into preservative chemicals. Fresh melon is on the skin with a thin layer of smooth hair, giving off a pleasant aroma. The melon soaked in chemicals loses the hair and scent.

If in doubt the melon with preservatives can be tried by simply putting it in a plastic bag, tying it back for a while and then opening it. If you see a bad smell, it is a residual chemical that still exists (because when the spraying is not enough, the isolation time is not enough), you should not buy it. But if fruits are soaked with preservatives, it is difficult to identify with the senses.

How to choose delicious melon

To choose delicious melon, you should choose fruits with a bit of cracks, avoid choosing many cracked melons that can make insects like flies, mosquitoes easily adhere to the melon cracks, causing the risk of disease disability.

The delicious melon is a melon with a dark color. Usually melons have alternating dark green and yellow stripes. When the melon ripens, the stripes are darker than usual and beautiful. In addition, the melon peel is smooth and smooth, with thin undercoat on the outside. Choose melon with a round shape, pick up the melon to make it firm and heavy, not soft. The melon stem is new and not mushy. The delicious melon is usually the old melon, the old melon has the weight and the accompanying hand is the aroma and crack in the shell.

Ripe or nearly ripe melon often has a characteristic aroma, aromatic, pleasant aroma. If the melon is nearly ripe, it will be fragrant with a few slight cracks in the shell, and when ripe, the melon is soft and more cracked. Standing in the distance also smelled the aroma of ripe, old, delicious melon fruit. If the melon is still young or ripe, the ripe melon will be soft but not cracked. In particular, there is no characteristic aroma.

Avoid choosing distorted, dull or ripe melons. After buying melon to eat, you should wash the melon very clean by soaking in salt water.

Those who should not eat melon

People who often have abdominal distension or defecate bowel movements should not eat this type of melon.

For those who are physically and mentally ill, hemorrhage is absolutely forbidden to drink medicinal juices from a melon stem.

Note: Before peeling melon, wash your hands clean. For peeled melon, it should be stored in a cool environment, absolutely avoid contact with flies or dirt.