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watermelon: Summer is here and watermelon season is also here. If you want to keep your body hydrated during summer, then you must consume watermelon. Eating watermelon during summer has many benefits for the body, especially it keeps the body hydrated. Doctors also recommend eating fruits like watermelon during summer. It keeps the body cool.
Watermelon contains 92% water due to which there is no shortage of water in the body. But many people are deprived of these health benefits of watermelon. Because they cut the watermelon and leave it in the fridge to cool. If you are also keeping watermelon in the fridge and eating it after cooling it, then change your habit from today itself.
Do not keep watermelon in the refrigerator
Refrigerating watermelon is prohibited. This is because keeping watermelon in the fridge like this destroys its nutrients. Watermelon is rich in nutrients and has very low calories so it also helps in weight loss. Eating this fruit keeps the stomach full for hours. But if you keep watermelon in the refrigerator, its nutritional value reduces.
This has been proved in a research. According to research, both the nutrients change when you keep the watermelon at room temperature and when you keep the watermelon in the refrigerator. Watermelon kept at room temperature is more nutritious. At the same time, bacteria start growing in watermelon kept in the refrigerator within some time.
To get all the nutrients from the watermelon, eat it whole in one go or after cutting it, store it at room temperature instead of keeping it in the refrigerator.
Watermelon Nutrients
Watermelon is rich in lycopene, antioxidants, vitamin A, vitamin C, potassium, amino acids. Apart from this, the amino acids present in fresh watermelon help in controlling high blood pressure. Watermelon is low in calories and sugar, hence it is also beneficial for diabetic patients. But all these benefits are available when watermelon is kept at room temperature, all these benefits get lost when kept in the fridge.