There is a kind of melon that has been enjoyed so roughly and vigorously: crouching at the side of the melon stall, choosing a melon to smash it with a fist can be let go and eating, how much can be eaten, there is only one condition - leave the melon seeds to the stall owner. This kind of melon is smashed with a fist to eat, so it is called "melon" by Lanzhou people, from the situation that the melon is expensive, we should understand that this melon is the seed melon listed in the autumn.
Seed melon is an annual herb belonging to the cucurbitaceae family. It originated in the Karahadi Desert in southwest Africa and was introduced to northwest China during the Tang Dynasty via the Silk Road. It is a low-sugar melon, which is a very regional agricultural product, similar in shape to watermelon, but smaller than watermelon, and the seed is the best-selling large plate of melon seeds.
Seed melon is a branch of watermelon, compared to the common edible watermelon, the cultivation of seed melon is mainly used to obtain melon seeds, melon seeds have economic value such as food.
Jingyuan "seed melon"
Jingyuan seed melon, originating from the dry sandy land of Jingyuan Gaowan in Gansu, is a famous specialty of Gansu. Jingyuan seed melon, is a variant of the watermelon species, its melon shape is similar to watermelon, but smaller than watermelon, the average weight of a single melon is 2 to 3 kg, the surface is smooth, the color is light green, and there are dark green stripes. The flesh of the melon is yellow and white, with a large amount of seeds and large seeds. Natural natural conditions such as sand and gravel planting, sufficient light, and large temperature difference between day and night make the seeds and melons planted here thin and thick, refreshing in taste, moderate in sweetness, fresh and pleasant.
Jingyuan seed melon
Its seeds "big plate melon seeds" are all specialties of the northwest, especially at home and abroad enjoys a high reputation of "Lanzhou big board" melon seeds, Jingyuan for its important raw material supply, Gaowan, Beitan and other townships as the main production area, has built 40,000 acres of black melon seed production base, become the main large plate melon seed production base in Gansu Province, and provide good seeds to Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and other provinces and regions. The two excellent strains of "Jingyuan No. 1" and "Jingyuan No. 2" selected locally are famous for their large and flat plates and full of taste.
It produces more than 80 kilograms of melon seeds per mu, and in 1989, it was rated as a high-quality agricultural product in Gansu Province.
Jingyuan "black melon seeds"
Gansu's famous specialty, known for its large pieces, thin skin, flat plate, thick flesh, black and shiny, fragrant taste, excellent quality and other characteristics of the melon species is a melon seed with local characteristics in Jingyuan, and is a major specialty of Gansu. The shape of the melon is similar to that of watermelon, slightly rounded, but smaller than watermelon, with an average weight of 2 to 3 kilograms, a smooth surface, light green color, and dark green stripes. The melon meat is yellow and white, sweet, contains many seeds, and has large seeds. After processing, melon seeds are a very popular snack food.
nutritive value
Seed melon is a kind of health food that moisturizes the lungs and warms the stomach, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "The seed melon is sweet and sweet"; "Materia Medica Truth Seeking" records: "The gravy of the seed melon can moisten the lungs, relieve the heart, spleen and stomach heat, quench thirst, and eliminate ulcers." Modern medicine proves that seed melon is rich in 18 kinds of amino acids, vitamins and a variety of trace elements such as fruit acid, nucleocarbonic acid, nico acid, etc., has the effect factors of diuretic, lung and spleen, has the characteristics of low fat, low sugar and low fever, and also has auxiliary medical effects on diabetes and obesity.
Seed melon has a high medicinal value, its melon meat has the special effect of cough expectorant, diuretic and antipyretic, and treatment of stomach diseases. Seed melon is full of treasure: melon seeds can be processed into canned seed melon juice, low-sugar seed melon canned and so on. Melon peel can be used as melon strips and rice dumplings. At present, the latest research shows that seed melon can extract active factors, natural processing into green drinks without additives, seed melon dew and tianlu chigua have become health drinks in Lanzhou and even the whole country.
"Seed melon" short story
It is said that he was born with no food and no food, so he asked heaven, is there such a thing in the world? "The juice can be drunk, the meat can be eaten, the skin can be medicated, the seed can be sold for money, and the money that is sold can buy this thing back, and the cycle begins, eating and drinking in vain." Have it?
Heavenly: "Yes";
He asked, "What is this?"
Heaven forbid: "Seed melon"!
This is a passage from a wonderful story circulated by Gansu folk, "Big Heaven Asks". This story tells people that there is really one thing in the world that can be eaten and drunk for free, that is, the specialty "seed melon" produced in Gansu, the city of Guaguo.
The current condition of seed melon
Baiyin City grows about 370,000 mu of melons, with an annual output of about 960,000 tons and an annual output of 28,800 tons of black melon seeds. At present, the use of seed melon is mainly for the purpose of collecting melon seeds, the utilization rate is only about 5%, and a large number of seed melon juice, urn and skin are discarded as waste every year. Obviously, there are serious problems in this way of selling, not only the farmers have suffered huge economic losses, but more importantly, the development of the seed and melon industry has been greatly hindered. If it is comprehensively developed and utilized, its output value can be increased by more than 8 times.
The future of seed melon
Because seed melon has many values worth developing and its strong market potential, it is worth publicizing (Baidu space, etc.) through the Internet and other media (Baidu space, etc.) hometown specialty - seed melon, so that more people understand the seed melon, so that more people can enjoy the refreshing sweetness of seed melon. For the seed melon industry, this is also an unprecedented way of sales, which can greatly increase the income of farmers, improve farmers' confidence, cultivate more seed melon varieties, meet people's needs, and also create a brilliant tomorrow for seed melons.
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