Canary melon

Yellow Canary, also yellow honeydew melon, or Tendral Amarillo Amarillo, is a commercial type of muskmelon (Cucumis melo ) and characterized by its yellow fruit. It is often also known as cantaloupe. This trade Type is not nachreifend and belongs to the variety inodorus.

Features

After the commercial types - classification of the OECD, the Yellow Canary following properties:

The fruit is oval to elliptical, with a ratio of the height to diameter of 1.1 to 1.9. The fruit is 1.5 to 3 kg on average. The color of the surface is to mature bright yellow to orange - yellow. There are no secondary colors only at the flower end of the nerves somewhat darker color can be. The skin is generally not netted. You can greatly wrinkled or may not be wrinkled, but not ripped. Seams are missing.

The flesh is greenish- white to light orange towards the seed cavity.

The fruit stalk does not dissolve by itself and is usually present in the fruit.

Melons consist of about 85 % water and contain vitamins A, B1 and B2, calcium and phosphorus.

Documents

• OECD: International Standardisation of Fruit and Vegetables. Melons. OECD Publishing, 2006, pp. 54-57. ISBN 9789264022553 ( Online )

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