August and September – a time of watermelons. Ripe pulp and sweet juice – what can be more tasty? Besides it is known that watermelon is not only a tasty, but also useful product. It purifies slags, brings salts and also stones out of a liver and kidneys.
The cellulose which is contained in watermelon pulp reduces cholesterol content in blood. In it there are a lot of vitamins and also minerals. Availability of fructose allows to use it both to diabetics, and people wishing to lose weight. Besides fructose, weight loss is promoted also by low content of carbohydrates in it. Them as much how many in raspberry and currant and less, than in apples and oranges. Caloric content of watermelon is about 38-40 kcal on hundred grams. Therefore there is a certain diet on the basis of watermelon which suits those who want to say goodbye to excess weight. Thanks to it it is possible to throw off not less than three kilograms a week. The essence is in that on 15 kilograms of your weight to use 1 kilogram of watermelon a day. Means, in a day you have to eat more than three kilograms of watermelon. The main thing not to keep to such diet it is more than five days.
Quite often apply watermelon and in cosmetology. It promotes rejuvenescence and clarification of skin. The water-melon mask helps to humidify and tone up face skin therefore well is suitable for flabby and also for dry or oily skin. Mix of juice of watermelon and a yolk is suitable for dry skin, and for fat - mix of protein and water-melon pulp. Well the frozen water-melon juice tones up face skin.
Before buying watermelon it is important to know the following:
1. The large fruit means that it grew in well lit place. Also it means that it ripened. Its weight has to be not less than five kilograms. The more watermelon, the it is riper.
2. The color of a crust is more contrast, the watermelon is riper.
3. It is possible to determine a ripeness level by a sound. For this purpose watermelon needs to be put on the left hand, and right it is necessary to poshlepyvat on it. Tell the sounds giving in the left hand about ripeness.
4. The side on which watermelon lay has to be the lightest color.
5. Watermelon has to have a dried tail.
6. The kept-up watermelon has to have a firm cover which is hard pierced by a nail.
7. Don't buy the rumpled watermelon.