Watermelon is a high or low sugar fruit

Watermelon is a low sugar fruit.

The sugar content of watermelon is about 5% to 12%. Although it tastes sweet, but because of the water content of watermelon to 90% or more, so eat watermelon to eat most of the water, 100g watermelon calories about 30 kcal, and strawberry calories close to the common apples, oranges, kiwi picking sugar content are lower.

Generally, the sugar content of fruits is divided into three categories: the sugar content of less than 10% is known as low sugar content fruit; the sugar content of 10% to 20% is known as medium sugar content fruit; the sugar content of more than 20% is known as high sugar content fruit.

High-sugar fruits generally include bananas, pineapple nectar, and durian, while low-sugar and medium-sugar fruits mainly include apples, pears, watermelon, tangerines, oranges, grapefruit, kiwi, dragon fruit, apricots, and strawberries. If you want to lose weight you should consume less fruits with high sugar content, and there is no special restriction for medium and low sugar content fruits for normal people.

Watermelon varieties classified

1, cherub watermelon: cherub watermelon mature fruit is oval, fruit type index 1.3 or so; the average weight of a single melon 1.5 kg, the largest up to 3 kg or more. Fruit surface is smooth, bottom color is bright green, covered with dark green medium-small toothed strips; melon flesh is red, flesh is crisp and tender, juicy and refreshing, less fiber, the center refractive sugar content of about 13%, up to 13.5% or more; fruit skin thickness of 0.5 cm or so, do not crack the fruit. Commercial melon seeds are brown ovoid, thousand grains weighing about 32 grams, the average number of seeds in a single melon about 100.

2, Chunlei watermelon: Chunlei watermelon fruit ellipsoid, fruit shape index 1.25. thin and tough skin, thick only 0.6 cm, the bottom color of the fruit surface bright green, uniform distribution of dark green thin striped band. The gap between the stripes is wide and less mottled. The surface is glossy and beautiful. The flesh is bright red. The taste of sand sweet, smooth, not hollow, not down flesh, and less fiber, soluble solids content of 13.9% or more, in the middle, the edge of the enamel gradient is small, edible rate is high, good quality.

3, Kirin King watermelon: Kirin King watermelon is extremely precocious, mature about 28 days after flowering. The plant grows vigorously, the fruit is ellipsoid, the skin is light green with thick green flower stripes, beautiful appearance. Flesh bright red, crisp flesh 'less fiber, juicy, containing 12.9% soluble solids. Fruit skin is tough and not easy to hollow, single fruit weight of about 5.0 kg. Disease resistance, high yield, resistance to heavy crops.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Watermelon for more information