According to the experts at the Watermelon Board, yellow and orange watermelons are generally sweeter than those with pink or red flesh. Seedless watermelons tend to have a crisper texture than those with seeds, they add. It should be noted here that you cannot find a watermelon shaped like a cube in the wild; that's totally a result of human interference and engineering. But finding watermelons of different colors is totally natural, due to cross-breeding among different varieties. It's the same reason why some watermelons are seedless while others aren't.
And it's not like a yellow watermelon is somehow better than a pink one because of the color. It might be trickier to find, but whether you like it or not is all up to personal preference. Of these, the following seven varieties are all in fact yellow fleshed watermelons:. Although these watermelons appear similar to the common red fleshed watermelons on the outside, bright green with darker green striping, the inside tells a different story. The flesh of a yellow watermelon can range from a light yellow to a deep golden yellow depending on the species.
They can be round or more ob-longed shaped and come with or without seeds. Yellow watermelons can weigh up to 30 lbs 14 kg but generally weigh anywhere from 5 lbs 2. This makes them on average half the size of the normal red fleshed varieties. Although they differ in size, yellow watermelons have the same distinct crisp texture as red watermelons.
Size comparison between red and yellow varieties. Although a close cousin of the popular red fleshed watermelons, yellow watermelons lack the red pigment and lycopene an antioxidant that give red watermelons and similarly red tomatoes their color. Yellow watermelons that are grown in preferable conditions and picked when ripe are distinctively sweeter than red watermelons. Although Yellow watermelons can be grown in any season, during the summer is when they will flourish. Yellow watermelons are best grown in warmer countries such as their origin, Africa or within the United States, Mexico or California.
But since both have green rinds, you probably won't be able to tell them apart from the outside. In terms of nutrition, both types of watermelon are high in vitamins A and C. While yellow watermelon does not contain lycopene, it makes up for it with high levels of beta-carotene, an antioxidant that may protect against cancer. Both yellow and pink watermelon can come in different varieties, including seeded and seedless varieties, thanks to natural cross-breeding. You can use yellow watermelon anyway you would use regular watermelon.
If you're picking a watermelon, whether yellow or red, there are several ripeness indicators to look out for. A ripe melon should be heavy in weight with a creamy yellow patch on one side, also known as a "field spot.
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