Have you ever seen a watermelon with yellow flesh? Is the yellow watermelon on the market genetically modified?

With the arrival of summer, many friends began to buy watermelons in advance and have a good meal. How much do people in China like to eat melons? Otherwise, there are many people who eat melons online in China. The total output of melons in China is 72,943,800 tons per year, but the production and sales of melons are only 60,000 tons. The melons planted every year are basically eaten up by China people. Needless to say, there are not enough melons in our own country.

I don't know if you have seen a melon with yellow flesh. I still remember that many years ago, you could see this kind of melon with yellow flesh in fruit shops, but it would appear for a while, and then there was no trace of this kind of melon, followed by a seedless watermelon. Friends who want to see this kind of melon must be familiar with it, so how did this yellow watermelon grow? Many people think it is genetically modified food, while others think it is growth hormone melon. What are the objective facts?

In fact, yellow watermelon is not a so-called growth hormone melon, nor is it a melon cultivated by genetic engineering technology. Whether wild or artificially planted, the colors of the inner pulp are white, light yellow, bright yellow, light pink, orange, big red, deep red yellow and so on. In fact, it is several genetic controls of melon that determine the tone of the pulp. Whether it is red melon or cucumber, it is not harmful to human health.

The greater the lycopene content in common red watermelon, the redder the color of watermelon pulp. Yellow flesh watermelon, on the other hand, is bright yellow because it contains more carotene and carotene. So which is sweeter, red watermelon or yellow watermelon? According to the research on melon, it was found that the core sugar content of red-fleshed watermelon was higher than that of yellow-fleshed watermelon, and the sugar content of red-fleshed watermelon was about 10%, while that of yellow-fleshed watermelon was about 8.5%.

However, there are different varieties of yellow watermelons. Maybe you ate a particularly sweet yellow watermelon again? Remember, there are all kinds of yellow watermelon, such as "Xinjinlan", "black gluten" and "Texiaofeng". These two kinds of melons are sweet in taste, but they require higher soil layers and are not suitable for large-scale implementation. However, the taste and taste of "Texiaofeng" melon are still different from ordinary red watermelon, so the user evaluation is slightly poor.

From this point of view, the reason why yellow watermelons rarely appear in fruit shops lies in these two aspects. One thing is that high-quality yellow-skinned watermelons also have great regulations on the region, so it is very easy to promote them nationwide. On the other hand, the taste of ordinary yellow watermelon is not as good as that of red watermelon, and the competition among more and more watermelon varieties is becoming more and more fierce, so yellow watermelon will only disappear in a short time. In that case, can you still see yellow watermelon in your city?