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Summer is inseparable from swimming, ice cream, long evenings with campfires and watermelons. Incidentally, contrary to popular belief, they are botanically a vegetable, not a fruit. They are available in the winter months too, but their price can rise even tenfold, and besides, you won’t enjoy the refreshment that a well-chilled watermelon brings. And if, like us, you are lovers of the sweet red flesh, pay attention.
Cocktail in half a minute
Mark Rober from the United States came up with a great trick. He made use of the fact that a watermelon is practically all water, and that it has a very hard rind that protects the flesh with seeds. To make a great refreshing watermelon cocktail you need, besides the watermelon itself, only a drill and the wire from a clothes hanger. It’s done in less than half a minute, as you’ll see in our video.
Watermelons are very beneficial
From a nutritional point of view, consuming watermelons is suitable for practically everyone. This sweet vegetable has a whole range of benefits for our body, for example:
- On a hot summer day it excellently replenishes fluids, and in addition also important minerals including electrolytes, which help the body retain water. After a watermelon you’ll not only feel refreshed, you’ll also sweat less.
- It replenishes important vitamins and nutrients. After all, it’s a vegetable, and it is very healthy in its raw state. In addition to vitamins A, B and C, watermelon is a great source of copper and magnesium. And if you also eat its seeds, or blend them into a cocktail, you’ll also get zinc and iron from the watermelon. All of the mentioned substances are especially needed in summer for the proper functioning of your body, which high temperatures can excessively strain.
- It gives your heart a boost. In a good way, of course. Watermelon contains the powerful antioxidant lycopene, which is extremely important for a healthy heart. The riper the watermelon, the more lycopene it contains. And besides that, you’ll also find potassium in watermelon, which your heart also needs.
