New Delhi:- Nowadays, adulteration in food items has become common, and now even fruits have not been able to escape from it. Watermelon available during summer season is also being sold ripe with chemicals. Today we are going to tell you ways to identify real and fake watermelon.

As soon as the summer season starts, watermelon becomes popular in the market. People eat watermelon with great enthusiasm and it is also very beneficial for health. The elements and water present in it help in keeping the body hydrated, but watermelon will be beneficial only if you are eating the real one. Nowadays, adulteration is going on in everything and now even watermelons are being found adulterated. Now you might be wondering how watermelon can be adulterated, we buy whole fruit. The upper layer of the watermelon will look absolutely real to you, but it will have been colored red by injection and cooked with color chemicals. Eating watermelon with chemicals can make you sick and will not be of any benefit to your health. Today we will tell you the difference between real and fake watermelon and will also know how to identify the right watermelon.

Danger of food poisoning
Seeing the high demand for watermelon, many people ripen it by applying chemicals and it also has a bright red color. Also, sugar is added separately, so that the taste remains sweet. In such situations, customers often get cheated and buy fake watermelons. But if you eat adulterated watermelon, it can cause many types of stomach problems including food poisoning. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has told how to identify real and fake watermelon and health coach Miruna has also told an easy trick. Let us tell you about this too.

How to identify real and fake
The simplest and easiest trick is the one with tissue paper. Whenever you buy a watermelon, the shopkeeper cuts it and shows whether it is ripe or not. If you have not got this done, then definitely get it done now. Ask him to cut a piece of watermelon and show it to him and keep the tissue paper with him. If you place the tissue paper on a watermelon and its color turns red or orange, then it is fake. If the color of the tissue paper is not changing, then it is genuine.
You can also detect fake watermelon by using water trick. Put a piece of watermelon in water, if the color of the water appears to turn red, then it is fake. The color of water from a real watermelon never changes. The color of chemically-colored watermelon will start dissolving in water.
You can also identify watermelon by its color. If the stalk is yellow and dry, with a yellow spot at the bottom, it is cooked properly. If the stalk is green and fresh, has a white spot at the bottom, reddish color and white seeds, then the watermelon may be fake.

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