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>With the arrival of the summer heat comes the arrival of summer’s favorite giant fruit — The Watermelon. It is everything you want and love about a summer fruit. Both sweet and juicy, both delicious and nutritious, it cools you down, feeds you and hydrates your body with its waters. All of this in one fruit. A miracle from God or the creativity of humans? Before there was a red, sweet, longish and large watermelon in the world, there was a wild version that was round, smaller, yellow and bitter. These wild varieties can still be found across deserts in Africa yet they are inedible due to their bitterness. The ancestor of the modern-day cultivated watermelon is believed to be the Kordofan melon from Sudan. They are believed to be the closest relative to the modern-day red variety as they both taste sweet and do not have the bitterness gene, but unlike the contemporary watermelon’s red pulp, the Kordofan melons have whitish pulp. It is believed that watermelons were first domesticated in north-east Africa by the ancient Egyptians beginning first in Sudan and then traveling up the River Nile until their cultivation reached the Nile Delta in Egypt and from there spread across the Mediterranean world during Roman times.
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