Melon caloric content

Melon – the plant which came from far Central and Asia Minor relating to family Pumpkin, to a type of the sort Cucumber and being melon culture.

Fruits of a melon are edible fleshy fruit which can be also considered and culinary vegetables – they have the round or oblong form, have from 11 to 16.5 cm a diameter and 450-850 g weigh on average.

Outside the fruit will be fitted a dense skin which can be a corporal or orange-yellowish shade, a fruit interior – the light yellow, quite soft consistence having rich sweet taste and musky aroma. In the center there is a small cavity filled with the small seeds of white color entangled by a web of a mucous grid, which regardless of that how many calories in a melon, have quite high energy value.

Useful properties of a melon

Melon fruits usually use without chilled skin. An edible part of a fruit contains a lot of water (nearly 95%) and despite low contents in a melon of calories, is rich in vitamins A, In and With, contains protein, calcium, phosphorus and iron.

Fruit also contains proteinaceous connection – collagen which shortage in an organism leads to disturbance of integrity of cellular structure of all connecting fabrics, and in particular skin. Collagen is capable to accelerate healing of wounds and to maintain elasticity of skin.

Pulp of a melon in which calories are very limited contains carotinoids which considerably reduce risk of cancer diseases, and also anticoagulant adenosine which normalizes coagulability of blood at the expense of what the risk of developing of a stroke and heart troubles decreases.

High content in fruit of water and minerals promotes process of digestion and reduces acidity, and the use of a melon with a small amount of lemon juice helps at gout.

Also the melon in which it is not enough calories in an organism works as diuretic that well influences kidneys.

Melon caloric content: nutrition and energy value of fruit

Caloric content of a melon allows to use its fruits as a dietary product as the organism spends much bigger amount of energy for digestion of fruit, than receives from its use.

Nutrition value and caloric content of a melon at the rate on 100 g of fruit makes:

• Fats – 0 g;
• Cholesterol – 0 mg;
• Carbohydrates – 12 g;
• Proteins – 1 g;
• Food fibers – 1 g;
• Sodium – 23 mg;
• Vitamin A – 5,276 ME;
• Melon caloric content – 53 kcal;
• Folic acid – 33 mkg;
• Niacin – 1 mg;
• B6 vitamin – <1 mg;
• Vitamin C – 57 mg;
• Calcium – 14 mg;
• Magnesium – 19 mg;
• Potassium – 417 mg;
• Carotinoids – 3219 mkg.

Melon caloric content: an easy diet for weight loss

Low caloric content of a melon allows to use this tasty fruit in various diets as along with useful properties and weight reduction it also helps to clear an organism of slags and toxins.

The melon diet excellently is suitable for a summer season when not only the melon, but also a water-melon – the second main component of this complex for weight loss spet. The diet lasts two weeks. Thanks to low contents in a water-melon and a melon of calories, during this time it is possible to achieve excellent results and to dump 3-4 kg. It is necessary to exclude sweets, bakery products and fat dairy products and to switch to chicken, fish, fruit, vegetables and whole grains, it is also possible to use olive oil, spices, salt, pepper and various herbs.

Every morning, right after awakening, it is necessary to drink a glass of the water mixed and a half the cut lemon.

The menu of a day diet calculated on two weeks is as follows:

• 1st day: a breakfast – a cup of coffee, a piece of black whole-grain bread and porridge. An afternoon snack – 100 g having the low caloric content of a melon or water-melon. A lunch – vegetable soup, 150 g of boiled chicken breast and the vegetable salad watered with 1 tsp of olive oil. Having a snack – 100 g of a cold melon or a water-melon. A dinner – the Greek salad;
• 2nd day: a breakfast – a cup of coffee, a piece of black whole-grain bread, 30 g of chicken shank. An afternoon snack – 100 g of a cold melon or a water-melon. A lunch – a portion of chicken broth, 150 g of a boiled hake, 100 g of potato salad and fresh tomato. Having a snack – 100 g having the low caloric content of a melon or water-melon. A dinner – vegetable soup;
• 3rd day: a breakfast – a cup of coffee, a piece of the black whole-grain bread smeared with paste from a chicken liver. An afternoon snack – 100 g of a cold melon or a water-melon. A lunch – a plate of broth, 200 g of spaghetti and vegetables salad. Having a snack – 100 g of a cold melon or a water-melon. A dinner – 150 g of risotto with vegetables;
• 4th day: a breakfast – a cup of coffee, a piece of the black whole-grain bread smeared with oil and honey. An afternoon snack – 100 g having the low caloric content of a melon or water-melon. A lunch – a plate of spinach, 200 g of boiled beef with vegetables and greens salad. Having a snack – 100 g of a cold melon or a water-melon. A dinner – the salad from 100 g of chicken, 50 g of boiled potatoes and 50 g of a cauliflower filled with 1 tsp of olive oil;
• 5th day: a breakfast – a glass of unsweetened lemonade, a piece of black whole-grain bread and two chicken sausages with mustard. An afternoon snack – 100 g having the low caloric content of a melon or water-melon. A lunch – 150 g of roast chicken, 100 g of boiled haricot and a piece of black whole-grain bread. Having a snack – 100 g of a cold melon or a water-melon. A dinner – the Greek salad;
• 6th day: a breakfast – a cup of coffee with milk, a piece of black whole-grain bread and 50 g of ham. An afternoon snack – 100 g of a cold melon or a water-melon. A lunch – a plate of beef soup, 200 g of braised beef with vegetables and greens salad. Having a snack – 100 g having the low caloric content of a melon or water-melon. A dinner – 100 g of low-fat yogurt or kefir;
• 7th day: a breakfast – a glass of low-fat yogurt, a piece of black whole-grain bread, 50 g of fresh cottage cheese and a slice of a melon or a water-melon. An afternoon snack – 100 g of a cold melon or a water-melon. A lunch – 200 g of sweet cabbage with beef and a piece of black whole-grain bread. Having a snack – 100 g having the low caloric content of a melon or water-melon. A dinner – vegetable salad.

The menu of the second week of this diet completely corresponds to the menu of the first week.

If there is no special desire to observe such long complex for weight loss, then it is possible to choose also shorter options of a melon diet. For example, it is possible to use within a week this fruit as having a snack and a dinner. Even such option of a diet will help to clear an organism and will yield quite good results concerning loss of weight.

The juicy, sweet and having low caloric content melon is a fine dessert which besides still promotes process of splitting of fats.

The main thing to consider that such diet is suitable only for the end of the summer period – August and September are those months when fruit ripens and it is possible to be sure that the content of the nitrates and chemicals added to nonseasonal time for more rapid growth of a melon in it will be low.

Also the melon can serve as a product for fasting days, it contains a lot of cellulose thanks to what well saturates an organism with all necessary vitamins and macrocells, and also the long time and, despite the fact that how many calories in a melon, in such days pulp of fruit can be used in unlimited number keeps feeling of a saturation of a stomach.