Watermelon and melon are two summer fruits that all or almost all of us love. They have a great sweet taste, very few calories and they are mostly water, so that in these summer times they help us to combat the heat and hydrate ourselves.
But it’s always open the eternal debate about which fruit is better, watermelon or melon.
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Which one is less fattening?
The truth is that it is very difficult to decide which of the two is better, since both melon and watermelon They provide almost the same calories. The melon provides 35 kcal/100 g and the watermelon 30 kcal/100 g, so only 5 kcal are lost between them. Therefore, if we speak in terms of energy, the melon would gain more weight, but the difference is so small that it is not worth deciding between one and the other
Many people have believed that eating watermelon and melon at night makes you fat, when this really doesn’t make sense because what will define whether you gain weight or not are the total kcal throughout the day. Despite this, it may be that these two fruits help to lose weight if we eat them at night thanks to the satiety they provide, causing us not to eat other more caloric foods.
Both fruits provide little sugar and a high enough amount of fiber to feed our intestinal flora.
Both fruits are rich in vitamins and minerals, although watermelon provides much more vitamin A, B1, B6, zinc and phosphorus. On the other hand, the melon provides more vitamin B6, C, K and minerals such as calcium and potassium.
What benefits do they have?
Like all foods, more than looking at the vitamins and minerals they contain, we have to look especially at its food matrixwhich is rich in high-quality carbohydrates and phytonutrients such as lycopene in the case of watermelon, which provides benefits to the body.
Among the benefits that these fruits provide are:
- Reduces the chances of suffering from cardiovascular diseases
- Prevents the onset of type II diabetes
- Reduces the chances of suffering from cancer thanks to the enormous amount of antioxidants they have
- Increases satiety thanks to the large amount of water they provide and the fiber
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