MELON MERITS...

     The musk melon or cantaloupe is a perfect summer fruit. Its high water content can help take care of fluid loss that our body goes through due to perspiration in this season. It also helps combat heat in the body and prevents heat related disorders during summer.  
      If you are someone who is constantly counting calories, you should go the musk melon way. This fruit is good for people who want to lose weight because it isn’t high in calories or sugar, and can work as great snack for those in between mealtimes when hunger tugs you towards unhealthy food items. It has significant amount of fibre and helps you feel full quickly, and also helps sustain that feeling for considerable amount of time. It taste good and be a great addition to fruit salads and custards. So a quickly weight loss programme ought to include musk melon.


      Musk melon can take care of your skin, too. It contains Vit A, which is useful in manufacturing healthy skin. The fruit contain folic acid and therefore especially important for pregnant women. It helps to create healthy fetuses and can ever prevent cervical cancer and osteoporosis. Also the folic acid present in musk melon helps fight depression. Musk melon have yellow orange colored soft and succulent flesh and fruits is high in dietary fibre and helps people who suffering from constipation. It is concentrated with excellent level of beta-carotene, folic acid, potassium and Vit A and C. so, if you are looking for healthy and younger skin, this is what you should include in your daily diet. The potassium content helps to excrete sodium, and thus brings down high blood pressure. This fruit is great for menstruating women as it helps to reduce heavy flow and clots. 

        Food chemistry -Cantaloupes are a source of polyphenol antioxidants, chemicals which are known to provide certain health benefits to the cardiovascular system and immune system. These chemicals are known to regulate the formation of nitric oxide, a key chemical in promoting health of the endothelium and prevention of heart attacks.