Title: New Miracle Drug: Watermelon
Headings: New Miracle Drug: Watermelon
New Miracle Drug: Watermelon
By Janet Ford, DietPower Senior Editor
Move Over, Tomatoes!
But Wait, There's More!
Spitters' Foe
Is That Melon Ripe?
Kicking the Tires

Content: This doesn't mean that eating watermelon will produce an erection, since the amount of citrulline is still relatively low. But it probably can't hurt. And if you eat the rind, too.... (Watermelon pickles, anyone?) For deeper insight into this potential benefit, click here. Spitters' Foe
Watermelons are still on the kitchen counter instead of the medicine chest because they're bulky, but that's changed over the years. Although the Japanese recently created a cube-shaped watermelon ( click here to see it ), in America the trend is toward smaller and smaller. In part, this stems (no pun intended) from the craze to make watermelons seedless. Melons without seeds are smaller and rounder than their seedy cousins. The technology for growing seedless melons has been around for half a century, but popular for only the last 15 years or so, says Warren Roberts, a watermelon expert and an associate professor of horticulture at Oklahoma State University. Today, one-third to one-half of all watermelons sold in this country are seedless, and in California the rate is seven in eight.