Hello and welcome to In The Kitchen With Matt, I am
your host, Matt Taylor.
Today, I have another fruit taste test video for you and I
am going to be talking about the Hami melon.
I have done other melons here on my channel.
I really like melons, cantaloupe, honeydew and
watermelon and the Christmas melon and the canary.
I just I love melons.
And so I'm excited to show you the hami melon.
And the Hami melon comes from China, but it is
cultivated around the world.
This particular one that I bought.
Came from Mexico and.
The melon as far as the nutritional benefits go,
is very similar to other melons like cantaloupe and similar
melons that I talked about here on the channel and very high in
vitamin A, high in vitamin C, also very hydrating.
And there's a lot of water content to the melon and.
Also, fairly low calories for this serving, one cup of it has
only 60 calories, so that's pretty awesome.
So kind of a high nutritional benefit per calorie.
And so how do you eat it ?
Well, just eat it like you would other melons.
So here it is.
Here's a close up of the Hami melon.
Also known as the Chinese Hami Melon.
Sometimes it's called the snow melon, and there's going
to be a variety of these, they're not all going to look
like this and this is a smaller one.
But ideally, what you want to look for is one that
is not green.
So it's going to be either yellow or orange,
sometimes white, but there's not going to be
any green streaks.
And how you tell that that it's ripe is you're going to push on
it a little bit.
It would be a slight give firm, but a slight dip.
And then on the ends, the Stems.
It should push in a little bit.
And again, there should be no green on the melon.
Also, you don't really want brown or black sponges, a few
black or black spots showing up here.
It's getting a little too ripe.
This was I got this at my Asian supermarket, and this is
all that they had.
This type is a little bit overripe, but that's OK.
And then to eat it, we're going to eat it or eat it like we do
other melons, I'm just going to come down here and just split
right down the middle.
Like that.
And that is what it looks like, very similar to
other Melon's, and it smells it smells really good, it smells
almost identical to like a cantaloupe.
And then what you can do is you can if you want to eat half of
it and save the other half, just wrap one of these halves
in like plastic wrap really well.
And then stored in your fridge for like three or four days
to eat it.
Just scoop out the inside a little bit.
The seeds.
And then you can save the seat and try to grow them
if you want.
And then once you scoop out all the seeds, you can just keep
scooping it out.
Like you can just come in here and scoop some with your spoon
and eat it that way if you want.
Hmm hmm hmm hmm.
Oh, wow, that is really good.
Or another thing you can do is you might want to just slice it
up like this.
Keep your fingers out of the way, of course, and then
you can eat it like this.
Mm hmm.
Hmm hmm.
Wow, I'm just going to stand here and eat all of this right
in front of you.
Mm hmm.
Or what you could do also is like you could take this one
right here and just do slices down it.
And then usually you probably use a different knife, like a
paring knife or just a little bit too lazy to walk,
you know, five feet over to where my knives are and grab
a paring knife.
So I'm going to use this oversized knife for
doing this.
And then you can just go like this.
Of course, you know, keep your fingers out of the way.
And they can get rid of a few for the scanner, the rain,
and then you can put these in like a, you know, fruit salad
or something, or just put them in a bowl and eat them like
that in little chunks.
Hmm.
And so what does the hammer smell and taste like
?
Honestly, it tastes really close to a cantaloupe.
If you love cantaloupe, you'll love this.
Maybe not as its definition of soft is like a watermelon,
maybe not as crisp.
As a canela, cantaloupe flavor wise is maybe in between like a
cantaloupe and a honey do, but very,
very similar to cantaloupe.
Hmm.
It's not.
Overly sweet, but it definitely is sweet.
Hmm, that's a really, really tasty melon if you
haven't tried one before.
Give it a try.
Like I said, very similar to a cantaloupe.
Drop a comment down below and let me know if you've ever
tasted the Hammie melon and if you like it.
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Time for me to dive into this some more.
Oh, yeah.
Hmm.