The ability is correct to choose watermelon is an opportunity to receive huge berry with ripe pulp which will allow to enjoy its taste without health hazard. Learn to define ripeness of watermelon easily, and the advantage of such skill is high.
Correctly to define how ripe water-melon berry on a counter of shop, it is possible to study some specific signs of a maturity in advance. There are some cunnings and to define nitrate content.
What signs of tasty watermelon
With high probability huge berry will be sweet if there are such signs:
- The form represents a little extended sphere.
- Strips on a crust have accurate contours, there is a spot of yellowish color.
- The dried tail.
- Prostukivany crusts are created by a deaf sound.
It should be noted that you shouldn't buy watermelons before August. Till that time they are on sale ripened only half if pulp red and looks sugary, most often the product was processed previously by something.
Bright pink or violet colors of pulp, white stones – sign of nitrate content. Watermelon without extraneous impurities has slightly reddish, granular middle, sunflower seeds – dark.
How to estimate ripeness of watermelon on appearance
To learn whether ripe watermelon, without cutting, it is necessary to pay attention to its crust. It has to be firm, without damages and dents. For gravity test of the top layer it is possible to try to puncture it with a nail – it shouldn't give in. A surface of good watermelons without wax coating, it has to glint in the sun.
Ripe fruits on that side which lay on the earth have a light yellow or light orange spot. White color of a mark means that watermelon didn't ripen. The crust has to be with strips of saturated green color. At percussion the fruit has to make a deaf sound which is given to a hand. You shouldn't ask to cut watermelons in the market – knives wash seldom there if day hot, on them is formed the Wednesday favorable for activity of bacteria.
Completely dried next short mustache is considered a right indicator of a maturity of the watermelon lying on a bed.
When choosing watermelon it is better to stop the choice on that who is considered "girl". For definition it is necessary to pay attention to the lower part of a fruit – a bottom at "girls" more flat, than at boys.
How to check watermelon for the content of nitrates in house conditions
If desired it is possible to try in house conditions to check hazardous substance content in the bought watermelon. For this purpose it it is necessary to cut and separate pulp pieces.
In a cup with a clear water it is necessary to lower a small piece of watermelon. At high quality of a fruit liquid can dim slightly. If water from pulp was strongly painted, watermelon contains noxious to health substances. It is better to refuse its consumption.