Summer — a time of maturing of various fruit and berries. One of the most popular summer fruit the melon by right is considered: it is a large fragrant fruit which is appreciated the honey taste and ability to lighten the mood.
In this article useful and harmful properties of a melon, contraindication to its use will be considered during pregnancy, rules of its storage and the choice upon purchase.
Whether it is possible for pregnant women is a melon
Those fruit which were grown up on a melon field, but not in the greenhouse can bring to an organism of the pregnant woman benefit, and were not processed by nitrogen fertilizers.
Important! The season of qualitative ripe melons begins in the middle of August. The fruits delivered on the market and in shops earlier were grown up in the greenhouse and contain a large amount of nitrates which are very harmful to the kid who is formed in a maternal womb.
On early terms
The melon during this period as it has a set of the useful substances necessary for the correct formation of systems of bodies of a fruit is especially useful.
- This fruit well influences nervous system — strengthens it, saves from insomnia, the panic attacks, depressions.
- It promotes removal of heavy metals and toxins from an organism, washes out an urinary system, helps against inflammatory diseases of kidneys.
- Irreplaceable folic amino acid promotes formation of a nervous tube at a fruit, interferes with emergence of congenital malformations.
- RR vitamin reduces the level of harmful cholesterol in blood, preserves future mother against atherosclerosis.
In the second trimester
As all systems of bodies of a fruit during this period are already created, the woman needs to restore balance of mineral substances and vitamins:
- Phosphorus increases comprehensibility of calcium — it promotes strengthening of a skeleton and future mother, and kid.
- Vitamins of group B and silicon stimulate metabolism, improve appearance of skin, nails, hair, normalize a condition of mucous membranes.
- Low caloric content of a melon warns an excess set of weight, facilitating thereby the course of pregnancy.
- Vitamin C strengthens the immune system, increases protective functions of an organism of a fruit.
Whether you know? Presently wild grades of a melon practically did not remain. For the first time the mankind began to grow up this culture in the period of Ancient Egypt — approximately in the 12th century BC. To Europe this fruit was delivered from Asia Minor at the time of the Middle Ages, and the Slavic countries began to cultivate the honey beauty only in the 15th century.
On late terms
During this period the kid grows most intensively therefore the maternal organism especially needs support:
- The potassium and iron which are a part of this product strengthen the cardiovascular system of future mother, help it to cope with the increased loading. Also they participate in blood formation process, prevent development of anemia and support a tone of vessels.
- The abundance of cellulose in this fruit contributes to digestion normalization. The regular use of a melon stimulates an intestines vermicular movement, saves from locks and other frustration. Also it supports own microflora of an organism and preserves against dysbacteriosis.
- Serotonin which is emitted after the use of this product lightens the pregnant woman the mood and saves from its differences.
- Possessing the expressed diuretic action, this fruit saves the pregnant woman from hypostases and developments of stagnation in intestines.
Contraindications and precautionary measures
Most often fruit which was grown up with use of nitrates and other fertilizing, harmful to a human body, is capable to do harm to an organism.
Important! For half an hour before the use of a melon and in an hour after it it is necessary to refrain from any other food and drinks. This fruit is incompatible with milk and carbonated drinks, fancy bread, fruit juice. Misuse of a melon provokes excess gas generation.
However there can be also other difficulties:
- The high glycemic index and a large amount of digestible carbohydrates do this product forbidden for pregnant women with diabetes.
- Diuretic action of a melon can do much harm to the women suffering from an urolithic disease.
- This product at its individual intolerance is contraindicated. Also the women inclined to food allergies should not use it.
- The melon will also not bring benefit to pregnant women with chronic diseases of a digestive tract. In the three first month of breastfeeding it is worth refraining from it as it can provoke disorder of digestion and diathesis at the baby.
- During exacerbation of inflammatory diseases of an urinogenital system you should not use this fruit as it will aggravate a course of disease.
As it is correct to choose upon purchase
If the ripeness of watermelon can be determined by easy percussion, then the melon needs to be examined more attentively:
- First of all pay attention to a fruit thin skin. It has to be clean, without spots of decay, dents, cracks. Especially fragrant melons have a golden network.
- Smell a fruit — ripe fruit will smell sweet as pear, honey or pineapple. At overripe fruits in a smell decay notes are felt.
- The qualitative fruit has to have moderately firm buttocks. The soft buttocks with a wide bed which can be trampled down a finger are a sign of the resung fruit, firm with a green shade — nedospely hothouse.
- The qualitative melon will have a dry tail from the basis to top. If the tail dried on the end, and at the basis green — means, the fruit was broken unripe, and it has bad tastes.
- Splash on a fruit side. If the sound of the deaf — means, seeds in a fruit are not enough, and it is a lot of pulp.
- Never buy the cut fruits as in storage time the amount of nitrates increases in them, and on a surface of a cut the pathogenic microflora breeds.
Whether you know? For a long time it is considered that the world's best melons are grown up in Uzbekistan. At the beginning of the 1810th years the Hungarian ethnographer Herman Bamberger noted that the melons which are grown up in Hivakh have no rivals neither in Asia, nor in all the rest of the world.
How to choose a melon: video
How to store in house conditions
The whole fruit needs to be stored in the cool, dry and dark place, papered or suspended in a grid, not longer than five days. In the cut look you store a melon in the fridge not longer than day. Whenever possible put it in ceramic capacity a cut down.
If you plan to prepare this fruit for longer term:
- Peel it.
- Cut in small cubes and spread out on a baking sheet.
- Put a baking sheet in the freezer for day.
- Pour the received cubes to a tight package and you store in the freezer not longer than half a year.
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The melon is surprisingly tasty and useful seasonal product. Its regular use normalizes work of intestines and urinary system, will clean an organism from toxins and slags, will lighten the mood. When choosing a qualitative melon it is necessary to be guided by its appearance and to get it during a suitable season. Only the qualitative fruit will bring to an organism the expected benefit.