2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
The first for the season watermelon the native markets were already flooded and people rushed to buy the juicy fruit. But leading Bulgarian agronomists recommend that you refrain from buying them.
It turns out that the fruits are of extremely low quality, in addition they are full of pesticides and nitrates, leading Bulgarian agronomists warn.
Only half an hour after cutting the watermelon, it softens and turns into a shapeless mush. The larger pieces stick together and look like a foam sponge, the sufferers complain.
According to domestic producers, this is due to the fact that the watermelons on the market are mainly imported from Turkey, where the use of plant protection products and fertilizers is not controlled as in the European Union.
Some producers assume that part of the production may be Bulgarian, but heavily inflated with all kinds of chemicals, so that it can gain weight quickly and ripen early.
The juicy fruit flooded the domestic market at the beginning of last week, as the first watermelons were offered at a price of about 70 stotinki per kilogram.
But pressed by the huge amount of cheap imports, traders were forced to halve their price and currently a kilo of watermelon is offered about 35 cents on the stock exchange.
Agronomists warn that the earliest Bulgarian watermelons will appear on the market only in late July, early August. Until then, all that is offered is either imports from warmer countries or watermelons filled with a solid amount of chemicals.
According to people familiar with the matter, larger watermelons are more dangerous because their size is a sure sign that they have received too much nitrogen fertilizer.
Experts also advise not to buy watermelons offered along busy roads, because even after cutting the fruit continues to breathe with its skin and absorbs any toxins from the air.
If you still can't wait for the native watermelons to ripen, stop at a medium-sized fruit. When slicing, leave at least 1 cm of red core on the bark, as it is in the bark that the most harmful nitrates are concentrated.
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