Saturday, September 09, 2006

recently, i realise that i m addicted to watermelon, it is cooling... juicy.. i think it is becoming one of my favourite fruit.. i didn realise that there is actually a website call the ' national watermelon promotion board' haha.. very interesting. the website is all about watermelon.. the recipes, the history of watermelon.. how is watermelon grow.. anyway anyone interested can visit:http://www.watermelon.org/index.asp


i have been thinkin that if u dun want to grow fat.. then cut down on the soft drink then choose watermelon instead because can actually treat watermelon as a drink as 92% of watermelon is make up of water.. therefore i haven been drink soft drink.. i will treat watermelon as the drink.. furthermore watermelon is cheap and also no fat !!!


the history of water melon is quite interesting as i didn noe that watermelon was found in the Kalahari Desert of Africa.. Watermelon is thought to have originated in the Kalahari Desert of Africa. The first recorded watermelon harvest occurred nearly 5,000 years ago in Egypt and is depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphics on walls of their ancient buildings. Watermelons were often placed in the burial tombs of kings to nourish them in the afterlife.
From there, watermelons spread throughout countries along the Mediterranean Sea by way of merchant ships. By the 10th century, watermelon found its way to China, which is now the world's number one producer of watermelons.
The 13th century found watermelon spread through the rest of Europe via the Moors.
Southern food historian, John Egerton, believes watermelon made its way to the United States with African slaves as he states in his book, "Southern Food."
The United States currently ranks fourth in worldwide production of watermelon. Forty-four states grow watermelons with Florida, Texas, California, Georgia and Arizona consistently leading the country in production.