Article: Thanks goodness watermelon is a health food

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Thanks goodness watermelon is a health food

 

01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, June 28, 2006

 

By Jill Wendholt Silva

Knight Ridder Newspapers

 

Watermelon has always been an icon of summer.

 

Served at picnics, backyard barbecues and patio parties, the

seed-speckled red flesh is synonymous with thirst-quenching relief from

the scorching heat. Although cut-up cubes have become a year-round

staple of supermarket salad bars, the fruit is at its peak from

mid-June to late August.

 

While watermelon is rarely thought of as a nutritional powerhouse, the

National Watermelon Promotion Board (www.watermelon.org) has begun to

describe its star client as so packed with the good stuff that it is

" practically a multivitamin unto itself. " Fat-free and low in calories,

watermelon is a fair to good source of vitamins A, B6 and C; thiamine;

and potassium, a mineral essential to water balance in the body.

 

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