Title: The Watermelon Diet
Headings: The Watermelon Diet
The Watermelon Diet
By Janet Ford, DietPower Senior Editor
What Is the Watermelon Diet?
A Super Food
Move Over, Tomatoes!
But Wait, There's More!
A Work in Progress
Is That Melon Ripe?
Kicking the Tires

Content: Click here to see it .) Meanwhile, American growers are making watermelons 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 20 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 the United States are seedless, and in California the rate is seven in eight. The melon miniaturist movement continues. In California, one of the leading producers of watermelons (Florida is the biggest), stores are stocked with melons the size of cantaloupes. " As family size decreases, consumers want something smaller," says Dana Abercrombie, director of the California-Arizona Watermelon Association. Today's "personal" watermelon weighs only two or three pounds.