Everyone knows watermelon is one of the tastiest fruits available, but did you know that the sweet fruit contains the alphabet of vitamins (including some vitamins I didn\u2019t even know existed)?<\/p>\n
I did some reading about this over the years and decided to compile a snapshot of the nutritional benefits here. For instance, did you know that just one cup of watermelon meets 20 percent of your daily requirement for vitamin C? Or that the same cup contains 18 percent of vitamin A, 2 percent iron and even 1 percent calcium. You\u2019ll also find potassium, thiamin, niacin, vitamin B6, and folate. The list goes on and on, but what you won\u2019t find is a lot of sodium or any saturated fat.<\/p>\n
Now if you\u2019ll excuse me, I have some cubed watermelon in the fridge with my name on it. (No seriously, I do. Where I work, if you don\u2019t put your name on your food, it has a way of mysteriously \u201cdisappearing.\u201d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Everyone knows watermelon is one of the tastiest fruits available, but did you know that the sweet fruit contains the alphabet of vitamins (including some vitamins I didn\u2019t even know existed)? I did some reading about this over the years and decided to compile a snapshot of the nutritional benefits here. For instance, did you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[80,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-health","8":"tag-watermelon","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n