Muskmelon or watermelon
Watermelon is one of the best low sugar fruits one can incorporate in their daily diet and enjoy its amazing health benefits.
• It has high water content, provides you with a good volume of food with fewer calories and is 92% water which also helps to keep you full for a longer period of time.
• Improves heart health: Lycopene helps to lower blood pressure and cholesterol, it also helps to reduce down the thickness of artery walls. Citrulline content in watermelon helps to lower blood pressure by expanding the blood vessels with the help of increasing nitric oxide levels.
• Lowers oxidative stress and inflammation: Vitamin C and lycopene content in watermelon helps to lower inflammation and oxidative stress.
• Prevent macular degeneration: Lycopene being anti-inflammatory and an antioxidant compound helps to prevent AMD i.e. age-related macular denigration (eye problem that causes blindness )
• Relieves muscle soreness: Citrulline helps to lower muscle soreness.
• Improved Skin and hair benefits: Vitamin C helps in the synthesis of collagen and vitamin A helps to repair skin cells. The nutrients of watermelon help to keep up and provide healthy skin and hair benefits.
• Improves digestion: It is a fibre and water fruit, thus the fibre helps to provide bulk while the water helps to keep our digestive tract efficient, promoting and improving digestion.
Muskmelon has a sweet taste with the following benefits :
• It has high water and fibre content which makes it beneficial for people with constipation, indigestion and other digestive issues. The fibre content helps in regulating bowel movement along with a cooling and calming effect. The vitamin C content of muskmelon helps in treating stomach ulcers.
• It is a potassium-rich food that helps in relaxing the blood vessels. Potassium (vasodilator) helps to keep blood pressure in check.
• It also helps our brain to focus and calm down.
• It has anti-inflammatory properties that help to relieve pain related to arthritis. Muskmelon helps to prevent oxidative stress in joints and bones along with reducing any kind of inflammation.
• If u include muskmelon on a daily basis in your diet it helps to replenish your body with vitamin A. The vitamin A content of our body depletes due to pollution, smoking, consuming adulterated food, ingesting pollutants, etc. All these factors make our lungs weak therefore vitamin A allows proper functioning of the lungs. It also helps to relieve congestion in the lungs.
In conclusion, you need not choose between the two instead try to include both these fruits in your daily diet for such amazing health benefits.