This kind of watermelon is difficult to grow, and the qualified rate is only about 10%, and the planting cost is many times higher than that of ordinary watermelon. Transportation is also entirely by air, and several layers of shock-proof and fall-proof foam should be wrapped. In this case, even tofu will be priced as meat.
"An ornamental watermelon 1888 yuan is a bit expensive!" This kind of watermelon is called Elvis Presley, which has a history of twenty or thirty years. It was first introduced into Japan from China. This kind of melon sells well in Japan, about 100 dollars each. This kind of watermelon is not only square, but also pink, seedless and sweet, and can be stored for about 10 days. ? Merchants bid so high because things are scarce and difficult to cultivate.
Japan's current sky-high square watermelon
Square watermelons cultivated in Japan are sought after by the rich in Russia.
Have you ever seen a square watermelon? A few days ago, the square watermelon cultivated in Japan was sought after by the rich in Russia. In a chain store in Moscow, the price of each square watermelon is as high as 860 US dollars (about 5,300 yuan), which is 300 times that of ordinary watermelon.
According to the report of USA-Today website on July 18, the square watermelon was cultivated in Japan, initially just to facilitate storage and save space. It is not a genetically modified watermelon, but it is put in a transparent box when people cultivate it, so it will grow into a square when it matures. Japanese people like to give watermelons as gifts. These square watermelons were picked in Japan and sold to Russia before they were ripe.
Square watermelons have the same taste and weight as ordinary watermelons, each weighing about 6 kilograms. The only difference is the price between them. The price of square watermelon quickly rose to about $860, which is about 300 times that of ordinary watermelon. In two weeks, Russian-made watermelons will be put on the shelves around August 1, and the price of ordinary watermelons is about 5 rubles per kilogram (about 1.4 yuan RMB per kilogram).
Compared with Russian, square watermelons are very cheap in Japan, about $80 each (about 490 yuan RMB).
The sales assistant of a chain store in Russia said that the "watermelon fever" did not appear, and some customers bought square watermelons "just for fun". Square watermelons were originally sold for $700 in Russia. However, with the increase in demand, the price soared to $860.
""Inventory 10 "Taboos" for Eating Watermelon
1, don't eat too much, otherwise it will hurt the spleen and stomach and cause pharyngitis.
Watermelon is a cold product, and eating too much is easy to hurt the spleen and stomach. Therefore, people with spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, dyspepsia and loose stool should eat less, while eating more will lead to abdominal distension, diarrhea, loss of appetite, accumulation of cold and dampness, leading to diseases. Eating too much watermelon at a time will dilute gastric juice, cause indigestion and decrease gastrointestinal resistance.
Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold.
Don't eat watermelon at the beginning of a cold, otherwise it will aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. Whether wind-cold cold or wind-heat cold belongs to exterior syndrome at the initial stage, it should be treated by divergent methods to solve the disease from the exterior. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that exterior and interior are not attacked, otherwise exterior evil will enter the interior, and the condition will be aggravated. In the early stage of a cold, eating watermelon is equivalent to eating drugs that clear away heat from the interior surface, which will lead to the entry of pathogenic factors, aggravate the cold or prolong the cure time. However, when the cold gets worse and there are fever symptoms such as high fever, thirst, sore throat and yellow urine, you can eat some watermelons while taking normal drugs, which is helpful for the recovery of the cold.
Don't eat watermelons that have been open for too long.
When the temperature is high, watermelon is easy to deteriorate after being opened for a long time, which will breed germs and lead to intestinal infectious diseases. Therefore, when eating watermelon, we should pay attention to choosing ripe fresh watermelon.
4, people with renal insufficiency should not eat.
Eating a lot of watermelon in a short period of time will increase the water in the body, which exceeds the physiological capacity of the human body. In patients with renal insufficiency, the ability of kidney to regulate water is greatly reduced, and too much water entering the body can not be regulated and excreted, resulting in a sharp increase in blood volume and easy death due to acute heart failure.
5, oral ulcers do not eat.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main causes of oral ulcers are internal heat due to yin deficiency, disturbance due to deficiency of fire, and burning flesh and blood veins. Watermelon has diuretic effect. If people with oral ulcer eat more watermelon, the water normally needed in the body will be discharged through the diuretic effect of watermelon, which will aggravate the state of insufficient vaginal fluid. Yin deficiency will increase internal heat and aggravate oral ulcer.
6. Diabetic patients need to eat watermelon in moderation.
Watermelon contains about 5% sugar, mainly glucose, sucrose and some fructose, which means eating watermelon will increase blood sugar. Normal people can keep their blood sugar and urine sugar at a normal level because they can secrete insulin in time. People with diabetes are different. Eating too much watermelon in a short time will not only increase blood sugar, but also lead to acidosis and even life-threatening due to metabolic disorder. The daily intake of carbohydrates (carbohydrates) by diabetics needs to be strictly controlled. Therefore, if you eat watermelon many times a day, you should reduce the amount of meals and flour products (carbohydrates) accordingly, so as not to aggravate your illness. If you eat 25-50 grams of watermelon at a time, it will have little effect on diabetics, so diabetics should pay attention to the right amount of watermelon.
7. Mothers should not eat more watermelons.
Maternal physique is relatively weak, Chinese medicine believes that eating more watermelon will be too cold and damage the spleen and stomach.
Watermelon should not be eaten before and after meals, because a large amount of water in watermelon will dilute the digestive juice in the stomach and affect the digestion and absorption of food, and eating watermelon in large quantities before meals will occupy the volume of the stomach and greatly reduce the intake of various nutrients, especially for children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. For people who want to lose weight by dieting, eating watermelon before meals is a good way to reduce their food intake.
8. Eat less iced watermelons.
Although eating iced watermelon on a hot day has a good effect of relieving summer heat, it is very irritating to the stomach and is easy to harm the spleen and stomach, so we should pay attention to grasping the delicious temperature and quantity. Watermelon is best placed on the lowest floor of the refrigerator, where the temperature is about 8- 10℃, and the temperature is also the best. Don't eat more than 500 grams of watermelon at a time. Chew slowly. For people with dental caries (tooth decay) and tooth allergies, they will feel sour and painful after catching a cold, and people with poor gastrointestinal function are not suitable for eating iced watermelons.
9. Watermelon is a fruit with high sugar content, which can be easily converted into fat, which is not good for health.
You can eat less sugary parts of watermelon and choose red and white watermelon skins to eat; Moreover, it is not suitable for eating watermelon after 9 pm, and it is easy to grow a lower abdomen and a small belly; You can even cook with watermelon skin in summer, such as cold watermelon skin: take watermelon skin with slightly red flesh, remove the outermost hard skin, cut it into small pieces, and then add sugar, salt and various seasonings according to your own taste, which is not only refreshing, but also beautiful and slimming.
10, watermelon must be washed before eating.
After washing the watermelon, cut it with a clean knife and you can eat it. Never cut the melon without washing the knife. Don't eat melon pulp bitten by mosquitoes, flies, etc. To prevent the disease from entering the mouth.
Lenovo sells watermelons at sky-high prices
Watermelon was originally round, but after people's thinking innovation, round watermelon became square. One day in 2005, the farmer's market in Shan Tong Temple, Fan Chuan County, was crowded, and people came from all over the country to buy square watermelons that had been rumored for a long time. Watermelon has changed from round to square, and its value has risen sharply. A square watermelon costs 10000 yen.
The process of watermelon changing from round to square is not complicated. When watermelon is young, put a square glass bottle on it. Before the watermelon stops growing and is about to mature, gently break the glass bottle and it will become a square watermelon when it matures. Melon farmers who study square watermelons said that the initial motivation for planting square watermelons was to facilitate the transportation and storage of watermelons. Round watermelons take up a lot of space and roll easily, so it is inconvenient to put them in the refrigerator.
China patents include invention patents, utility model patents and design patents. Design patent refers to a new design based on shape, pattern or their combination, and the combination of color and shape and pattern, which is impressive and suitable for industrial application, thus showing the importance of product shape.
As we all know, there are many ways and means of innovation, many of which are product shape changes, and deformation is one of the simplest, most commonly used and most easily realized innovation methods.
Watermelon can change from round to square, and the ball can also change into square ball, baseball, globe, ice hockey and hemisphere ... These non-round balls are not only different from the ball in shape, but more importantly, they are different from the ball in usage, use, function and effect. Try to play with square basketball, the trajectory of the square ball will be unpredictable and unpredictable, which puts forward higher requirements for the adaptability of athletes. With the change of the shape of the ball, new sports can be created, such as global competitions, dribbling and so on.
In order to survive in a harsh environment, primitive humans felt that sharp stones were more lethal than smooth stones in thousands of stone-throwing hunting practices. Cutting branches with sharp stones is labor-saving and efficient, so they have a preliminary understanding of sharp stones. After creative thinking, creative labor processing has taken place and the most primitive tools have appeared, thus beginning the long process of human beings getting rid of animals. The discus, javelin, bow and arrow and other sports equipment widely used now are actually the deformation of primitive hunting tools. It is this accumulation of creative labor that has profoundly changed today's world.
The existing shape of the product is the biggest obstacle to changing the shape of the product. Here we can feel the existence of this obstacle at will. For example, when it comes to toothbrushes, people will think of toothbrushes with long handles that are used every day. Instead of changing the shape of toothbrush into gloves, you think of a glove-shaped toothbrush. Some people will object: why do you think that the shape of a toothbrush is not like a toothbrush? The author's answer is: because there is a better shape than the existing one, this better shape is not necessarily the current shape of the toothbrush. Prejudice creation greatly restricts people's later creation. Few people think of toothbrushes, flashlights, hats and fans of different shapes.
Square watermelons sell at sky-high prices, reflecting priceless creativity. The shape of the product can be changed. Towels are long, changing into long diamonds, and hanging triangles looks better. Towels are the fastest to wear in the middle, and the four corners are not needed. There is no harm in removing them, and materials can be saved. Of course, deformation is not a blind change. It should be beneficial, beneficial, affectionate, valuable, at least interesting, and bring joy to everyone. Here, the key is not to let the existing form of things affect people's thinking and become the fetters of innovation.
From this, it can be considered that a product is a successful invention and a successful innovation as long as it can be transformed, improved and improved to meet people's needs in material, spiritual and cultural aspects.
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