西瓜含有丰富的营养物质,又具有清热解毒、消暑利尿作用,可谓是夏季消暑佳品。 英国医学工作者19世纪中叶在南非中部卡拉哈里沙漠及其附近的萨班那地带发现了各种西瓜野生种群落,他认为其中肉白味苦的野生种是栽培品种的祖先,南非是西瓜的起源地。 根据各国古书记载、壁画及考古学家从古墓中发掘的西瓜种子、残存的叶片推测,世界上西瓜栽培历史最悠久的国家是古埃及,距今大约已有4000年之久了。公元前四、五世纪西瓜便跨越地中海传到欧洲的古希腊和古罗马一带,距今2400～2500年前再由海路传到印度,然后由印度逐 Watermelon is rich in nutrients, but also has detoxification, summer heat diuretic effect, can be described as summer heat Jiapin. British medical workers in the mid-19th century in the central South Africa Kalahari desert and its vicinity Saban found a variety of wild watermelon community, he believes that the white bitter wild species is the ancestor of cultivars, South Africa is the watermelon Origin. According to ancient records of various countries, murals and archaeologists unearthed from the tombs of watermelon seeds, the remnants of the leaves speculated that the world’s oldest watermelon cultivation history is ancient Egypt, about 4,000 years ago. In the fourth and fifth centuries BC, watermelons spread across the Mediterranean Sea to the regions of ancient Greece and Rome, from 2400 to 2500 years ago by the sea to India, and then by India