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I ran across this post on Twitter/X, and it really caught my attention. For the past couple of years, when I eat a large amount of watermelon, I don’t feel good. I used to jokingly call it feeling “liverish,” and I would think it was just too much fructose in a short time. I’d rationalize that watermelon can be so delicious, it is easy to overindulge. But now I am wondering if chemicals/toxins was the problem all along. Whatever the case, this woman’s message is enough for me to give up watermelon, and maybe all melons, for a while at least.
Is this even from organic melons?
Organic melons seem less watery and more like real food. I Wonder if the sugar or lack of minerals burns out the adrenal glands??? I once ate a whole watermelon in one sitting and felt a giant high then awful for 2 days. organic ones somehow don’t do this.
@Lilac Don’t give up watermelon, just buy them organic. I’m trying to grow my own, but the awful squirrels keep eating them.
I can think of only two stores in my area that would sell organic watermelons. I will check out that strategy when possible. I definitely love a good watermelon. Nothing quite like it when it is peak season. I remember one small dark green melon I got at a roadside stand in New Jersey. I did not expect anything more than average, but it was perfect–texture, color, sweetness.
I am now going to give the side eye to those enormous bins of good-looking melons you see in Costco and similar places. They put a sticker on them that says “non-GMO,” and the subliminal message is that this is something fairly natural. But if these big specimens are so ubiquitous, I’m guessing they are using modern (bad) growing techniques–chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
I have been saying for years now that cantaloupes are not like they were when I was a kid. Back then, the melon rinds were clean on the outside, the melons ripened on a windowsill in the sun, and the flesh inside was sweet and tender-firm. Haven’t had anything close to that for decades.
I just recently got some wood to build cages to put netting over to stop the same happening to strawberries
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