Hello and welcome to in the kitchen with Matt.
I am your host, Matt Taylor.
Today I have another fruit episode for you and I'm going
to be reviewing the gala or Gaia Melon.
This melon is really awesome.
One of my favorite little melons.
Really, really cool.
Other names for it are the snowball melon, the dinosaur
egg melon, a dinosaur egg melon and the ghost melon.
And it just has this really interesting look to it almost
completely white with some green specks on it.
And it does kind of look like like, maybe like a
dinosaur egg, which is really pretty neat.
And the Gaia or Gaia melon is a cultivar cultivar of
the Honeydew, and it comes from Japan originated in Japan,
but it's grown in China, Southern California,
grown in Mexico.
Also, it is grown in places like South America and as
well as Australia.
And what are the health benefits ?
Well, the health benefits are extremely similar to the other
kind of melons that I've reviewed on here high end
vitamin C, high in vitamin A and it helps with your immune
system and very rich in antioxidants.
How do you eat this?
Well, you eat this just like you would any other melon.
But the rind on this is a little bit thinner than a
traditional melon, like a watermelon or a cantaloupe.
The rain is a little bit thinner and edible.
You can definitely eat the rain.
And so I'm just going to cut this in half and show you what
it looks like.
Now, how do you know when it's right?
Well, like most melons, it's not going to ripen much
after it is picked, but it has a very long shelf life
as well, and you just store it at room temperature.
And when you pick them, you want to find one that's
really heavy for its size.
Now this is.
I would say the size of like a softball and a half.
But it is it is pretty heavy, like a lot heavier than when
you think it should be for that size.
So that's one way to tell when it's ripe.
Also, if you just squeeze on the blossom ends with
your thumb, there should just be a slight glint gives you
that and there's a sight slight give to pressure.
And that's how you know that it's right.
But most of the time, if you find it at the store, it's if
you find out of the store, it's going to be pretty close
to the right because it doesn't really ripen after
it's picked, so they pick them when they're pretty much ripe.
And that's what it looks like on the inside.
It looks like pretty much a lot of other melons that I've shown
on here looks very reminiscent of a honeydew, but you can see
that the rain is really thin, very thin, right?
Kind of reminds me of the thinness of a Korean melon,
Korean melons.
How are you one of my favorite all time favorite melons?
Make sure to check out that video if you have not seen
that one, it's really good.
And so I'm going to scoop these seeds out here.
And then if you want to try to grow them, just save
those seeds, store-bought melons, the seeds
actually tend to grow fine.
A lot of times you don't plant the seeds from fruit that you
buy at the store because they just don't grow as well.
You want to get like a certain you want to buy it like
specific seeds, but melons tend to be fine that way.
So you could say the seeds if you want.
And you won't eat these seeds like you do some other melons.
There it is, there's a lot of juice right in here.
I'm a scoop that out a little bit.
Oh, man, I love it.
And there's a slight orange yellow tint to it on
the inside, but very pale yellow or greenish
on the outside.
And you can just scoop it
like this with a spoon just like you would.
OK.
I mean, eat it.
Mm hmm.
So good, you can take a melon baller and we can.
Getting a nice little ball out of it and put it in
a fruit salad.
If you want.
Huh.
Hmm.
Or you could.
Very common.
Like I've shown on here, you're just cut off strips like
that and then eat it like this.
Mm-Hmm.
So go, but the sense of fairness, the the people
where the rain is so thin.
Hmm.
It's not super hard to eat the peel or the rain still
a bit crunchy.
You may or may not want to eat it, but it has a lot of
nutrients in it, so you can consider eating it if
you want.
And what does it taste like?
It's very sweet, it's super juicy and it tastes very close
to a honeydew.
It's just really, really incredible tasting and
it looks really cool on the outside.
So if you ever get the chance, try to try one of
these guys melons.
They also might recall that you might find one is a
gallia melon, a very, very close to each other.
Very similar.
Very, very, very similar.
Some people mistake one for the other.
So the guy irja and then the gorilla.
And you may not find these at your
local supermarket supermarket.
Most likely you won't.
But if you have an Asian supermarket or international
supermarket buyer, you're probably find it there.
That's where I found mine.
And these were not too expensive about two dollars and
fifty cents a piece, which is not too bad.
That's about the price of like a cantaloupe.
You know, in my supermarket, I find a cantaloupe for about
that price, 253 bucks, something like that.
And they're almost the size of a countertop,
a little bit smaller.
So there you go.
That is the gear or Gaia melon.
Drop a comment down below.
Let me know if you ever tried this specific melon and if you
like it, it's very tasty.
I love it.
Enjoy it.
Recommend it to you!
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Time for me to dive into this summer.
Oh yeah.
Again, the pill itself, even though it's thin,
is still crunchy, it may be off putting to you, it may not be.
Try it with or without it.
Otherwise, you can just easily eat around it.
Mm hmm.
Mm-Hmm.
So good, I love this land.
Oh no, this.
I love this room.