Why do foreigners rarely eat watermelon? Sure enough, the conditions of "eating melon freedom" are not everyone's

Even in the summer, you will calm down in front of a cold watermelon. For most Chinese people, eating watermelon is the minimum respect for the whole summer, and half of the happiness of the hot summer is watermelon.

How much do Chinese people like watermelon? From the watermelon production can be seen, in recent years, China's annual output of watermelon has exceeded 60 million tons, accounting for more than 60% of the world's total watermelon production, the world's second to tenth watermelon production country combined, probably only about 1/3 of China, these watermelons are almost all consumed by our own (about 40 kg per capita per year), can be described as two flourishing production and marketing. Less than 20 percent of us eat more than 60 percent of our watermelon, which is a statistical indication of how much we love it.

Truly delicious and delicious food can be recognized by the vast majority of people, especially fruits, delicious is delicious, good fruit sweet, water, crisp advantages of watermelon have, not because it is Chinese or foreigners there is a huge difference in taste, "not used to eat" is not the reason for less watermelon consumption in foreign countries, summed up there are about 3 reasons.

Watermelon is more expensive in many countries

Watermelon can be said to be one of the cheapest fruits in our country, and high-quality watermelon is also very common for a few cents per catty, but in many countries watermelon is not a fruit to eat. For example, in Japan and South Korea, Europe and other countries, a watermelon to buy equivalent to two or three hundred yuan is very normal, although for the local income level is not expensive, and apples, bananas and so on a price, but certainly not cheap, you can imagine, if we sell watermelon and bananas around a price, watermelon sales will be so high?

There are not many varieties of watermelon to eat

China's watermelon demand is large, varieties also have agricultural experts continue to improve, let our watermelon more and more delicious, eat watermelon often have not ripe, not sweet, now China's watermelon varieties fine, buy will be very good to eat. Such as Zaojia 8428, Sweet King, Kylin melon, Ningxia selenium sand melon, Xia Le watermelon and so on are excellent watermelon varieties.

The yield is really not high

Although watermelon is not originally from China, it has been in a high status since it was introduced into China in the early Tang Dynasty, and it was listed as the first fruit in Taimiao in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. There was a melon garden in the Nanyuan Garden of the Qing Dynasty. Wang Zhen, an agronomist in the Yuan Dynasty, said in the Book of Agriculture that watermelon is "like a great wisdom and sweet dew that fills the heart". Need a large amount of fertilizer, with loose soil, well-drained sandy soil is the best, China's geological environment is complex and diverse, always can find some particularly suitable for growing watermelon places. Like Europe, the latitude is mostly in the northern temperate zone, the temperature difference is not large, in fact, it is not very suitable for planting watermelon, and suitable for planting watermelon in Africa, Central Asia and other places have no appetite for eating watermelon, consumption is not high, the overall production is not up.