According to the PA department of Agriculture (a tweet, so link excluded because Twitter), the spots come from the watermelon resting on the ground. The longer they have sat on the ground, the more yellow/orange the spot becomes. So this is a pseudo measure of how long the watermelon has had to ripen.
As for the webbing, many different sources suggest that this is from bees pollinating the flowers of the watermelon plant which scars the membranes that later form the fruit. This pollination leads to a sweeter tasting melon, so more scarring (pollination) means a sweeter melon, less scarring is more bland.
Just what is the webbing and why does a small amount negatively impact taste while a large amount positively effects it?
And what causes the yellow and white spots and makes the white one bad?
I was interested in this too, so I looked it up.
According to the PA department of Agriculture (a tweet, so link excluded because Twitter), the spots come from the watermelon resting on the ground. The longer they have sat on the ground, the more yellow/orange the spot becomes. So this is a pseudo measure of how long the watermelon has had to ripen.
As for the webbing, many different sources suggest that this is from bees pollinating the flowers of the watermelon plant which scars the membranes that later form the fruit. This pollination leads to a sweeter tasting melon, so more scarring (pollination) means a sweeter melon, less scarring is more bland.
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