"Watermelon may not be as organ-specific as Viagra, but it's a great way to relax blood vessels without any drug side effects," says Bhimu Patil, a researcher and director of Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center.
But here's the bad news buzz kill: You'll probably need to eat about six cups of watermelon to get enough of the key ingredient -- citrulline -- for it to have any effect.
Powerline (from Minnesota) points out that the chemical in question is highest in the rind, not the pink area...
If you didn't grow up in the Midwest, this may not have meant much to you. But if, like me, you came of age in an environment in which nearly every middle-aged and elderly lady made watermelon pickles from the fruit's rind, and such pickles were a staple at every church picnic and similar social event, today's news may have suggested, not for the first time, that those ladies knew what they were about...
Actually it is probably a German thing rather than Midwestern in origin...here is a recipe from SouthernFoods on About.com
And Chest of Books has another recipe.
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