Chapter 1 of 14
Melon
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Melon is roughly 90% water, so it rehydrates while it feeds.
Read the whole guide on one page →A cup carries around 400 mg of potassium, more than most fruits.
Persian custom eats melon alone, before a meal rather than after it.
Kharbozeh isn't just one fruit but a whole family. Persian melons are long, ridged, and so fragrant that one cut fruit can scent the room. Khorasan and Samarkand built reputations on them, and Silk Road travellers wrote home about melon stalls the way they wrote about mosques. The fruit is around 90% water with potassium and sugar — just what your body loses while sweating through a Persian afternoon.
Known to botanists as Cucumis melo.