Where to buy moonmelon

Here in America, honeydew and cantaloupe are typically thought of as lowbrow. Of course, only a couple of those are in your dish. The mindset in Japan is the opposite. For one, they actually hate eating the skins of fruits and have a weird habit of peeling everything. In Japan, you can find find about any food or drink in a melon flavor.

Buying them fresh can be comparable to shopping for a fine wine. The perfectly round and flawless fruits can sell for the equivalent of hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Hence, the Japanese moon melon name sounds legit. In fact, you almost would expect something like a blue melon to come out of Japan.

After all, these are the same folks who grow them in clear glass boxes. Whole Foods is expensive, but not even they put bubble wrap under their pricey produce or protect it with plexiglass covers!

And rather than run over to Walmart to pick one up, in Japan they are sold at high-end department stores. Red moon is a cultivar which is a cross between a Western and French muskmelon cantaloupe. So despite its mysterious name, it just looks like your run of the mill cantaloupe, or at least to the non-botanist it does. Moon and stars watermelons are totally legit. Unlike red moons, these heirloom melons actually look quite bizarre.

This is the Cherokee version, which is elongated. The Van Doren variety is round, in the shape of a normal watermelon. In the decades leading up to that, no one was selling any, so Mr. Van Doren was responsible for re-introducing them to the public. If you want to buy moon and stars melon seeds, you can pick them on Amazon.

With so much outrage over GMO foods, you will naturally have tons of blogs and sites dedicated to fighting them. Natural News was stupid enough to fall for the number one hoax below. A prime example of a GMO is a Granny Smith apple that has been modified so that when it is sliced, it takes longer to go brown.

Granny Smith apples are not as extreme as a purple watermelon, although due to these new technologies people were easily able to be mislead. A simple collection of photos fooled a large number of people around the world. Multiple images edited by multiple people were released making the hoax so believable. The purple color varies from each photo. Some of these hoax photos are a vibrant purple while others are more blue scaled. Not as believable as the photos above, although this whole purple watermelon still looked real to some internet users.

The photo evidence is not all that supported this hoax. Worse than the photos were the products being sold online. These seeds had low shipping costs, initial good reviews and multiple images of a fully grown fruit. Thousands of people were sold these seeds believing that they would grow to be a watermelon with purple flesh.

Much to their disbelief, all of the fruit bared from these seeds were red-fleshed watermelons. Believe it or not, these purple watermelon seeds are still available on eBay and Amazon. Many people have purchased them and left the truth they were faced with in the comments. The berry and its plant Richardella dulcifica grows in West Africa. While the local population has been using its miraculous properties for centuries, it was only in that the all-important protein miraculin was extracted and sold in tablets.

The miraculin also toys with sweet, sugary food in interesting ways. Drop a load of aspartame after popping a miracle berry tablet and the miraculin represses your sweet receptors, making sweet foods taste bland. Fact Checks.