In the summer you don't refuse to yourselves pleasure to regale on this juicy sweet fruit? Then it will be useful for you to learn several cunnings allowing to choose the best and ripe fruit!
First of all decide on where you will buy a melon. The correct decision will be to go to supermarket or to the good market, wrong - to buy a melon in the tents which are spontaneously arising in the summer from the road. The reasons of it are obvious: melons, like a sponge, perfectly absorb in themselves all dirt and petrol exhausts. Navryadli you derive pleasure from dusty fruit, and that it is very harmful, and there is nothing to speak.
In shop or in the market don't hesitate to demand from the seller the certificate, potdverzhdayushchy absence in a melon of nitrates. If the seller is confident in the goods, he without problems will allow you to get acquainted with it and if to it is what to hide (or the certificate simply is absent), it is better to go behind a melon to other place. Besides, оглянитиесь around: where do melons lie? On the earth, directly under the scorching sun? Then it is also best of all to refrain from purchase: fruits have to lie in a shadow, on a counter.
Choose the whole melons and you don't ask the seller to cut it at you to make sure of ripeness of a fruit. And it concerns both shops, and markets. Can't you be charged for purity of hands and a knife of the one who sliced a melon, truly? Besides, the melon contains many sugars, so, the place of a section, especially on a heat, becomes the ideal environment for reproduction of bacteria.
Grades of melons there is a huge number, on most often you two are offered: ""Torpedo"" and ""Collective farmer"". And the first option is much more preferable: it is more juicy, a slazha more fragrantly! If you choose ""Collective farmer"", don't take big fruits - they are less sweet. With ""Torpedo"" business are on the contrary.
By the way, about the last: the saturated, honey aroma with notes of honey, pear, pineapple will be sign of a ripe fruit. And here if it smells of greens - put it aside: the melon obviously didn't ripen yet.
Now we will pass to appearance: the correct fruit has to have, first, a peel without damages, it protects it from environmental impact. Therefore any cracks and breaks! Press on a thin skin - it has to spring. There was a dent from a finger? The melon disdained and at home you should throw out it in a garbage can. Also note that ""tail"" of a melon has to be dry, and ""nose"" (place of a flower) - softish. And fruits with big ""tails"" and ""noses"" (they are called still ""girls"") more sweet!
Color of a melon has to be without dark stains (sign of a lezhalost). At ""torpedo"" pay attention to a network - it has to be dry and rough and have light color. If it green - a melon didn't ripen.
One more way to check for ripeness: scratch a nail fruit skin. At a dead-ripe melon you will reach a green hypodermic at once.
Slap the pleasant melon a hand. If a sound of the deaf, then it is possible to take: you for certain will become the owner of a melon ""in the juice"".
Houses, having independently cut a melon, pay attention to sunflower seeds: they have to separate easily from an edible part. And the last has to have a whitish shade at ""collective farmer"" and cream - at ""torpedo"".
And now it is a high time to taste the bought fruit! I hope that having taken this advice, you weren't mistaken with the choice! The main thing, you remember that:
- you shouldn't gnaw pulp to the skin;
- you shouldn't eat a melon on a hungry stomach;
- you shouldn't disturb a melon with alcohol;
- you shouldn't wash down it with fermented milk products.