Summer, whether it is on the street or in the supermarket fruit stalls are placed seasonal fruit, the most typical is watermelon. This fruit, known as "the king of melons", has always been loved by many people because it is sweet, juicy, refreshing and thirst quenching. As a pet family, Xiaobian is thinking that watermelon is a fruit with high sugar content. Can dogs eat it?
Is watermelon really the fruit with the highest sugar content?
Some online medical consulting websites will post such shocking headlines as "watermelon has amazing sugar content, eating melon is too bad to lose weight", which makes some unidentified readers stay away from watermelon. But in fact, it's a big mistake. In the Chinese food composition table, we found the distribution of nutrients per 100 grams of four watermelon species.
In this table, we can see that the highest content of carbohydrate in watermelon, that is, carbohydrate, is 7.9/100g (Jingxin No.1), and the lowest content is 5.5/100g (cold gourd).
In the sweet fruit, watermelon sugar content can be said to be far from high. So what is the most abundant component in watermelon? The answer is: water, up to 93.4/100g. Therefore, a 10 kg watermelon, about 9 kg of water, and sugar in which only a small part.
How to feed your dog watermelon correctly:
No matter how good things are, you can't eat them endlessly
In the dog's normal diet and drinking water can guarantee the premise, a small piece of watermelon is enough, absolutely can't throw half a watermelon in front of it, let it have no scruples to eat. To know that dogs eat anything is unrestrained, if it is something they are interested in, they will even eat until vomiting.
If this thing is watermelon, it may cause frequent excretion and even intestinal adhesion due to ingestion of too many watermelon seeds.
Therefore, proper ways to feed your dog watermelon include:
1. Remove all seeds from melon flesh: most fruits contain cyanide, which may cause diarrhea and vomiting;
2. Combined with the dog's normal water intake to control food intake, it is best not to exceed 500 grams a day: as mentioned above, most of the nutrients in watermelon are water. It's a good thing to drink more water in the hot summer, but excessive drinking water will affect the osmotic balance of cells, which will lead to physical discomfort.
For people, a good subjective standard of water supplement is "drink when you are thirsty, don't drink if you are not thirsty". For dogs, you should also consider this kind of risk, so you must include the watermelon you feed into the total amount of daily drinking water for dogs.
3. Feed the watermelon as soon as possible after cutting it. If the dog doesn't eat it, clean it up in time
Because of its high water content, the flesh of watermelon will deteriorate quickly under the action of high temperature, abundant water and oxygen.
Even considering that dogs are scavengers in the wild and have strong stomach acid to fight off spoilage bacteria, we should not risk throwing rotten watermelons to dogs. Therefore, if you find that dogs are not interested in watermelons, you should dispose of them as soon as possible.
Can you buy a watermelon that has been injected?
Don't worry. It's a rumor
The news that "unscrupulous merchants have injected sodium cyclamate and carmine into watermelons to improve the sales of watermelons" has been circulating on the Internet and various mobile media since 2012. However, according to the experiments and various analyses made by technologists, this news can be confirmed as a true rumor.
According to the experiment, there are at least five problems to be solved in order to achieve this goal
1. Can liquid get into watermelon?
This problem is related to the injection location, injection dose, injection method and watermelon maturity. The final experimental conclusion is that it is possible to push some ml solution into watermelon through syringe.
2. Will there be visible injection holes left?
The experimental conclusion is yes, but according to the injection location, the difficulty of identification will also be different, but as long as we carefully look for the injection needle hole, such a regular round hole is still very good to identify.
3. What is the appearance of Watermelon after injection of pigment? Will pigment spread evenly in watermelon?
The experimental conclusion is that the solution pushed into the syringe will disperse evenly in a small area around the injection location, but the whole watermelon cannot be dyed unless a large dose of multi angle injection is carried out.
4. After the injection of pigment and sugar solution, will the decay rate of watermelon be accelerated?
After 48 hours of storage, the appearance of the injection area is not obvious, but the actual taste will feel the change of taste.
5. Will the injected solution flow back along the pinhole?
The results show that this problem mainly depends on the type of solution injected. After injection of pigment solution, no obvious outflow of solution was observed; after injection of pigment + saturated sugar solution, some solution flowed out of pinhole.
Of course, the whole experiment can not fully demonstrate the topic that "the injection watermelon absolutely does not exist in the market", because the experiment can not limit individual behavior, only evaluate its operational risk and operability, and then make a judgment on this basis.
But on the whole, it is very difficult to achieve the effect of the legendary injection of watermelon, and the part of the rumor that is regarded as "the trace of injection" is actually the normal placenta tissue in the flesh of watermelon.
Finally, he said whether he could feed the dogs watermelon. Xiaobian thought that it would be enough to feed the dogs occasionally and moderately.
