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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I was interested in this too, so I looked it up.

According to the PA department of Agriculture (a tweet, so link excluded because Twitter), the spots come from the watermelon resting on the ground. The longer they have sat on the ground, the more yellow/orange the spot becomes. So this is a pseudo measure of how long the watermelon has had to ripen.

As for the webbing, many different sources suggest that this is from bees pollinating the flowers of the watermelon plant which scars the membranes that later form the fruit. This pollination leads to a sweeter tasting melon, so more scarring (pollination) means a sweeter melon, less scarring is more bland.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I want to subscribe to watermelon facts.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Start a community!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)