Watermelon can be eaten in many ways - the rind can be blended into a healthy treat, there are yellow varieties with honey-like flesh, and early explorers used them as canteens. A watermelon is both a fruit and a vegetable, containing mostly water but also sugar, and it takes approximately 80 days for one to fully grow, with some individual watermelons weighing over 250 pounds and containing hundreds of seeds.

1. Watermelon
Abbie Hanson

2. Did you know that
you can eat
watermelon Rinds?
Pop the rind into the blender and add some lime.
Now you have a healthy and refreshing treat!

3. A watermelon is
classified as a fruit
and A Vegetable!
It is a fruit because it grows from a seed and is a
vegetable because it is related to the cucumber
and squash.

4. There is such thing
as a yellow
watermelon!
It has a sweet yellow flesh that tastes like honey

5. wHAT A
WATERMELON
CONTAINS.
A watermelon contains about 6% of sugar and
92% of water.

6. The watermelon is the
official state vegetable
of Oklahoma
There is a watermelon festival
in Oklahoma every year!

7. The first
Watermelon
The first watermelon harvest occurred about
5,000 years ago in Egypt.

8. What early
EXPLORERS uSED
WATERMELON For.
Early explorers used watermelons for canteens.

9. About How long
Does it take a
watermelon to grow?
Approximately 80 days!

10. The largest
watermelon!
The largest watermelon weighed 262.6Lb!

11. About how many
seeds are in a
watermelon.
It ranges from 200-800 seeds.

12. Carving
watermelon?!?!
People carve beautiful carvings out of
watermelon!