Vietnam Melon (Melon)
Entering May, signaling a new melon crop of Vietnamese farmers. Cantaloupe, also known as cantaloupe, Japanese melon, is a melon in the same family as pumpkin, zucchini, and cucumber, grown in Vietnam for thousands of years. This type of melon is green with yellow skin, hard outside but soft and flexible inside, often used to cool down the humid heat of the summer air.
However, as a summer fruit, cantaloupe comes in a variety of shapes that can be round or oblong, has a sweet taste, has excellent cooling and dehydrating effects.
How to eat
Pumpkin is a delicious, cool, nutritious, easy-to-eat fruit. However, not everyone knows how to eat melon properly. To choose a delicious melon, you should choose melons with few external cracks, thin skin and heavy hand. If you want to eat it right away, choose a melon that is just ripe, fragrant and not dark. If you do not want to eat right away, you can choose the green ones, then put them in a cool place in the house to wait for the melons to ripen.
Where is cantaloupe grown in Vietnam?
Cantaloupe is easier to grow than watermelon, has fewer pests and diseases, and is more adaptable to warm climates. Key areas for growing melons and pears in Vietnam include Gia Vien district, Ninh Binh province or the suburbs of Hanoi and Nghe An. Visitors can visit these homelands to observe the natural beauty of the lush green cantaloupe gardens.
The benefits of musk
According to Oriental medicine experts, cantaloupe is not simply a cooling and refreshing drink for the body, but also used as a healing fruit, slimming, and keeping fit in the summer. This type of melon contains many nutrients, fiber and offers many health benefits. In addition to the sweet taste, succulent pulp, melon also provides a large amount of fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C which helps to reduce heart attack, constipation, hiccups, blood pressure regulation as well as regulating blood pressure. treatment of amenorrhea in women. And don’t worry too much about the sweetness of this fruit, the high water content will dilute their natural sugar.
However, people who are physically weak or have hemorrhagic diseases should avoid this type of melon.
Dishes made from cantaloupe
In Vietnamese culture, every time we eat melon, we often mix the melon with sugar and put it in the cooler for refreshment – a summer delicacy of childhood. However, one can also make cantaloupe into different dishes such as desserts, salads, snacks and soups.
Source: https://traveland.com.vn
