The unique flavor of "Lanzhou seed melon" Winter is coming as scheduled, and the "melon and fruit city" melon and fruit are fragrant. The unique flavor of "Lanzhou seed melon" has come to the city again, and it has met with the eaters as promised, and the streets and alleys can be seen everywhere. This is a kind of local melon, with low fat, low sugar, low heat characteristics, commonly known for moisturizing the lungs and warming the stomach.

<h1> Winter is coming as scheduled, and the "melon and fruit city" melons and fruits are fragrant. The unique flavor of "Lanzhou seed melon" has come to the city again, and it has met with the eaters as promised, and the streets and alleys can be seen everywhere. This is a kind of local melon, with low fat, low sugar, low heat characteristics, commonly known for moisturizing the lungs and warming the stomach. </h1>

Generally speaking, in this season, those who love seeds and melons should store some for the family to eat in winter and spring. This year, somehow, the seeds and melons are very expensive, and suddenly I feel that the value has doubled, and those who eat melons will have to pay more. For this phenomenon, one may still be affected by supply and demand, demand is greater than supply, resulting in an increase in melon prices; the second may be that there are fewer melons planted, and the yield is reduced, that is, the rarity is expensive, and strange goods can be lived. Either way, one side benefits and the other is slightly embarrassed. The price of seed melons has soared, almost doubling compared with the same period in previous years, so it is no wonder that melon farmers are reluctant to eat.

"Lanzhou seed melon" is well known in the local area and is also the main melon stored in winter and spring. This is a melon species with local characteristics, and it is also a variant of the watermelon species, the shape of the melon is similar to that of watermelon, the outer surface is smooth, the color is light green, and it has dark green stripes. The flesh of the melon is yellow and white, not too sweet, contains more seeds, and the melon seeds are large. In fact, Lanzhou did not grow many seed melons locally, but with Lanzhou as the center, the melon farmers in the neighboring Jingyuan, Minqin, Huining and other places have planted seed melons, thus listing in Lanzhou.

Decades ago, seed melons were mainly taken from their black melon seeds, followed by edible melon juice, and melons were eaten for free on the ground, as long as the melon seeds were left. Now it is just the opposite, mainly eating melon juice, due to the low sugar content, many people like to eat seed melon. Seed melon is also a famous specialty of Gansu, which no one knows and no one knows. It is famous for its large melon seed slices, thin skin and thick flesh, and excellent quality.

Locals know the benefits of eating seed melon in winter and spring, because seed melon is a good food that moisturizes the lungs and warms the stomach. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Seed melon is sweet and sweet" "Seed melon gravy can moisten the lungs, relieve the heart, spleen and stomach heat, quench thirst, and eliminate ulceration". Modern medicine has also proved that seed melon is rich in 18 kinds of amino acids, vitamins and a variety of trace elements such as fruit acid, nucleoflic acid, nicolic acid, etc., has the efficacy factors of diuretic, lung moisturizing and spleen, and has the characteristics of low fat, low sugar and low fever, suitable for diabetes and obesity patients.

Seed melon also has a high medicinal value, its melon meat has cough expectorant, diuretic and antipyretic, food therapy for stomach diseases of the special effect.

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. The latest research shows that seed melon can extract active factors and naturally process it into a green drink without additives, and seed melon dew has become a health drink in Lanzhou and even the whole country.

The "big plate of black melon seeds" on the market is a by-product of seed melons, and they are loved by people when they are idle. Seed melons generally begin to be picked after the autumn and gradually begin to enter the market. Lanzhou has become the largest melon seed processing base, and thousands of tons of large plates of black melon seeds are sold to Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and other places every year, which not only increases the income of melon farmers, but also exports in exchange for foreign exchange.

Seed melon is a kind of low-sugar melon, the taste is light and tasteless, the characteristics of seed melon and watermelon are opposite, watermelon is cold, and seed melon is warm, eating seed melon in summer can relieve the heat, winter consumption can warm the stomach and lungs, mediate balance body disease resistance immunity, and rich in nutrition.

Lanzhou City, Nanhe East Road a row of vehicles selling seeds and melons, perennial engaged in seed melon distribution of a man introduced, he engaged in seed melon trafficking sales for many years, only this year's seed melon is valuable, a kilogram of sales price in 5 to 6 yuan, he said with a smile, such a price really did not expect, seed melon can sell such a good price, farmers are reluctant to eat.