The watermelon season goes hand in hand with trying to get rid of the melon peel left over after consuming it. Most of the time you can do it in the trash, in the case of livestock keepers, as food, and in the composter.
In the absence of a garden and animals, all this means is that there is no other chance for a melon peel to turn into rubbish. You just think so. There are always resourceful, skillful, practical people who can see further through these solutions.
What to do if you can’t augment either the garden or the stomachs of the animals with the melon peel? use it in the kitchen!
The vitamin in its shell
For most fruits, the vitamin is in the peel, and that’s exactly what you might want to think about for melons as well. Instead of throwing it away, you can even consume it raw. Of course, after thorough cleaning, it is not worth landing the watermelon peel in the trash because it helps to lose weight, of course, lowers blood pressure. An antioxidant called lycopene in the shell is good for some cancers, such as cervical cancer, prostate cancer, mouth and esophageal cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, or malignancies affecting the colon. Moreover, raw melon peel has a positive effect even on libido.
Is this too raw for you? You don't even have to throw away melon hair either. There is another solution.
Salad
They motivate you to eat a lot of vegetables and fruits, and even if you use that, you may not have made a salad from watermelon peel yet. Yet, if you dice the peel, soften it in olive oil after salting and peppering, you get an excellent salad.
Pickles
Many people don’t even think of sweet and juicy watermelon as using their peel, even though it can be used to make delicious pickles. You can find the way to make the pickles on ridikul.hu.
Jam
Melon peel jam? Nana! Wouldn't you have thought that? At femina.hu you will also find out what ingredients and how you can make melon jam.
Juice
Eating the juicy flesh of a watermelon, do you think there’s no juice in it anymore? Error! Delicious juice can still be extracted from the melon peel. If it’s not good enough on its own, you can make really delicious drinks by mixing it with other soft drinks or adding it to a fruit smoothie. Refrigerated, refreshing with ice cubes.
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(Source: marmalade.co.hu, femina, hu, ridikul.hu | Pictures: pixabay.com)