According to recent studies at Texas A&M’s Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center, Watermelon may be nature’s own version of viagra.

It turns out that watermelon naturally contains citrulline, which researchers have discovered can trigger the production of a compound that relaxes the blood vessels in the body.

For those of you who didn’t know, that is how the popular ED drug Viagra works. Researchers warn that watermelon’s effect is much less pronounced than Viagra.

The highest concentration of citruline is found in watermelon rind, not the flesh.

My husband’s great aunt use to make pickles out of watermelon rind.  She lived to be 105 and was still mowing her own grass at 100 with a rotary blade lawn mower.  I’m going to have to find her recipe for watermelon rind pickles!

Watermelon also functions as a diuretic.  It’s been a homeopathic treatment for kidney patients for years.