Watermelon is a powerful food that contains a number of properties and benefits. Specifically, the Carrizales brand "El Burrito" has special and unique characteristics due to the terrain in which it grows, a land that contains salts that are accentuated when in contact with irrigation water, giving it a very characteristic sweet flavor.

They are oval fruits weighing between 1.5 and 3 kg. Its flesh is white or yellowish, compact, crunchy, with a very sweet and refreshing taste. On the other hand, its skin is green, thin, and occasionally reticulated. Watermelon is composed of 80% water, in addition to providing very few calories, making it especially suitable for weight control diets or specific control that focus on reducing carbohydrates, such as for diabetic individuals.

Melons are round or elongated fruits, with yellow, green, or combined rind colors, measuring between 20 and 30 cm in length and weighing around 2 kg, with pulp that can be white, yellow, orange with seeds, having an exquisite aroma and pleasant taste, ideal for quenching thirst.

This fruit is called Cucumis melobelongs to the cucurbitaceae family (pumpkin, cucumber, watermelon, and zucchini), many claim that watermelon belongs to eastern lands like China, India, and others say it is of African origin. But it was consumed in Egypt many years ago.

The plant is creeping or climbing, with herbaceous stems, yellow and solitary flowers. The watermelon season is between July and September, but thanks to its varieties, they can be found in other months and in greenhouses.

Why Buy Watermelons?

Watermelon is purifying, diuretic, and has a laxative effect, recommended in cases of constipation.

Ideal for people suffering from certain conditions such as gout, rheumatism, kidney complications, during recovery, anemia, or weakness.

It contains vitamins and minerals, carbohydrates, water, potassium, and fiber, which act to purify, as a diuretic and laxative effect to help eliminate waste from the body. It is an ally for the skin, for people with blood vessel and heart conditions, hypertension, and fluid retention

Calcium, magnesium, vitamins A and C, folates are favorable and recommended during pregnancy for fetal growth, a portion of 200g of watermelon replaces 30% of the body's daily folic acid needs.

Thanks to its low calorie and sugar content, it is recommended by many nutritionists in obesity and diabetes treatments.

This fruit is used to prepare different dishes such as salads, desserts, appetizers, combined with ham. Jams, creams, purees, liqueurs, sorbets, and slushies can be prepared with it.

Its rind is used as a container in the preparation of fruit salads, in Africa the seed is used to make edible oil and lighting.

Freshness and Quality at FrutaMare

FrutaMare has been offering its customers the best of its watermelon crops for years, as it is a quintessential summer fruit, its water content is refreshing and ideal for hot days to ensure good hydration, its flavor is unbeatable. Also at FrutaMare you can buy high-quality oranges online and also buy seasonal fruits and vegetables online without leaving home.

The specimens sold by FrutaMare are compact and heavy, with thick skin, without spots and with the corresponding color according to the variety of watermelons that exist.

Its aroma is sweet and delicate, if it is green it can be stored in a well-ventilated and cool place