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Watermelon

Citrullus lanatus

Watermelon is a fruit with a moderately sweet taste and juicy texture. It is eaten raw.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Fruit
Part used
Fruit
Family
Cucurbitaceae
Texture
Juicy
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
Russia
Watermelon, cut

Photo: Don miraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use watermelon

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Raw

Flavour

Taste and texture

Taste, raw profile of watermelon

Sweet3 out of 5
Sour0 out of 5
Salty0 out of 5
Bitter0 out of 5
Umami0 out of 5

Texture

  • Juicy

Nutrition

What 100 g of watermelon holds

Per 100 g, raw. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 10%Fat 2%Carbohydrate 88%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of watermelon, raw
Energy30 kcal · 127 kJ
Protein0.87 g
Fat0.15 g
of which saturated0.02 g
Carbohydrate7.6 g
of which sugars7.2 g
Fibre0.4 g
Sodium0 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of watermelon, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium117 mg
Calcium7.9 mg
Iron0.02 mg
Magnesium11 mg
Zinc0.1 mg
Vitamin C6.5 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)28 µg
Folate12 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 167765, 2747675), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where watermelon is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use watermelon. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list watermelon among their ingredients.

Origins

First cultivated
in Sudan

  1. 961 · Spain

    Watermelons were cultivated in Córdoba by 961.

  2. 1576 · United States

    Spanish settlers grew watermelon in Florida in 1576.

  3. 1650 · Peru, Brazil and Panama

    By 1650, watermelon was cultivated in Peru, Brazil and Panama.

  4. 1939 · Japan

    Japanese scientists developed seedless triploid watermelons in 1939.

On the table

Dishes made with watermelon

1 of the 2 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Watermelon steak

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include watermelon.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: watermelon in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Around the world

What watermelon is called

Names in 139 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    sandía · Batheca · Paitilla · Melón de agua

  • French

    pastèque · melon d'eau (fruit) · pastèque (fruit)

  • Italian

    anguria · cocomero

  • Portuguese

    melancia · Melancieira · Citrullus lanatus · Melacieiras

  • German

    Wassermelone · Arbuse · Citrullus lanatus

  • Dutch

    watermeloen

  • Greek

    Καρπούζι · Υδροπέπων · Καρπουζιά · Καρπούζια

  • Turkish

    karpuz · Citrullus lanatus · Citrullus vulgaris

  • Russian

    арбуз · арбуз (ягода) · арбуз (плод)

  • Polish

    arbuz · kawon · melon wodny

  • Arabic

    بطيخ أحمر · بطيخ احمر · البطيخ الأحمر

  • Persian

    هندوانه · تربوز

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  • Abkhazian

    fкарпыжә · Citrullus lanatus

  • Afrikaans

    Waatlemoen

  • Albanian

    shalqiri · Shalqi

  • Amharic

    ሃብሃብ

  • Aragonese

    Melón d'augua

  • Aramaic

    ࡒࡀࡓࡀࡌࡁࡀ · ࡒࡀࡓࡀࡍࡁࡀ

  • Armenian

    ձմերուկ

  • Aromanian

    himunicu

  • Awadhi

    खरबुजा

  • azb

    عادی قارپیز

  • Azerbaijani

    Adi qarpız · Citrullus lanatus · Citrullus vulgaris

  • Balinese

    Sumangka

  • Bangla

    তরমুজ · Xigua · Moon and Stars · Densuke watermelons

  • Bashkir

    Ҡарбуз

  • Basque

    angurri · Citrullus lanatus · angurria · sandia

  • Belarusian

    кавун

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    кавун

  • Bikol

    Pakwan

  • Bislama

    Watermelon

  • Bosnian

    Lubenica · Lubenice

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    melancia

  • Bulgarian

    диня · любеница · карпуза · карпуз

  • Buriat

    Тарбас

  • Burmese

    ဖရဲသီး

  • Cantonese

    西瓜

  • Catalan

    síndria · meló d'alger · xíndria · meló d'aigua

  • cdo

    Să̤-guā

  • Cebuano

    Citrullus lanatus

  • Central Dusun

    sadur

  • Central Kurdish

    شووتی · ھەنی · شامی · شوتی

  • Cherokee

    ᎬᎩᏍᏗ · Watermelon · Citrullus lanatus

  • Cheyenne

    Nêxo'mévéhe

  • Chinese

    西瓜 · 西瓜汁 · 西瓜皮

  • Corsican

    Patecca

  • Croatian

    Lubenica · Citrullus lanatus

  • Czech

    vodní meloun · citrullus lanatus

  • Danish

    vandmelon · Citrullus lanatus

  • Divehi

    ކަރާ

  • eml

    Ingüria

  • Esperanto

    akvomelono · Citullus lanatus

  • Estonian

    Arbuus · Vesimelon · Citrullus lanatus · Cucurbita citrullus

  • Filipino

    pakwan

  • Finnish

    Vesimeloni · Citrullus lanatus · Citrullus vulgaris · Vesimelooni

  • Galician

    Sandía

  • Ganda

    Sekazzi

  • Georgian

    საზამთრო

  • Guarani

    sandía · sandia · sándia

  • Gujarati

    તરબૂચ

  • Haitian Creole

    Melon dlo

  • Hausa

    Kankana

  • Hebrew

    אבטיח · אבטיח פשוט · Citrullus lanatus

  • Hindi

    तरबूज · तरबूज़

  • Hungarian

    görögdinnye · Citrullus lanatus

  • hyw

    Ձմերուկ

  • Indonesian

    Semangka · Tembikai

  • Japanese

    スイカ · 水瓜 · 西瓜 · ウォーターメロン

  • Javanese

    Semangka

  • Kannada

    ಕಲ್ಲಂಗಡಿ

  • Kara-Kalpak

    G'arbız · Qarbız

  • Kashubian

    Zwëczajny kawón

  • Kazakh

    Қарбыз

  • kbp

    Pasɩtɛkɩ

  • Kinyarwanda

    wota meloni

  • Korean

    수박 · 수박속

  • Kurdish

    Zebeş · Cebeş

  • Kyrgyz

    Дарбыз

  • Ladino

    Karpuz

  • Latvian

    arbūzi · arbūzs

  • lbe

    Къалпуз · Citrullus lanatus

  • Ligurian

    Pateca

  • Literary Chinese

    西瓜

  • Lithuanian

    Tikrasis arbūzas · Arbūzai · Citrullus vulgaris

  • Macedonian

    лубеница

  • Malay

    tembikai · buah tembikai · semangka · buah semangka

  • Malayalam

    തണ്ണിമത്തൻ · വത്തക്ക · തണ്ണി മത്തൻ · ചെങ്കുമ്മട്ടി

  • Manx

    Mellyn ushtey

  • Marathi

    टरबूज · कलिंगड · सिट्रिलस लॅनॅटस · टरबुज

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Si-koe

  • Mongolian

    тарвас

  • Mossi

    narɩ · niri

  • Navajo

    Chʼééhjiyáán

  • Nepali

    खरबुजा

  • Northern Frisian

    Weedermeloon

  • Northern Sami

    Čáhcemelovdna

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    vannmelon · Citrullus lanatus · Citrullus vulgaris · Vassmelon

  • Odia

    ତରଭୁଜ

  • Ossetic

    харбыз

  • Pashto

    هندواڼه

  • Pennsylvania German

    Wassmeloon · Watermelon

  • Punjabi

    ਹਦਵਾਣਾ

  • Romanian

    pepene · Lubeniță · Harbuz · Pepene verde

  • Sanskrit

    कलिङ्गफलम्

  • Sardinian

    sìndria

  • Scots

    wattermelon

  • Serbian

    лубеница · Бостан

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Lubenica · Bostan

  • Shan

    တႅင် · တႅင်ၾၢင် · တႅင်တမ်ႇပူႇ · တႅင်တဝ်ႈ

  • Shona

    nwiwa

  • Sicilian

    muluni d'acqua · muluni russu

  • Simplified Chinese

    西瓜 · 寒瓜

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    西瓜

  • Sindhi

    هنداڻو

  • Sinhala

    කොමඩු

  • Slovenian

    lubenica · Citrullus lanatus

  • Somali

    qare

  • Sundanese

    samangka

  • Swahili

    tikitimaji

  • Swedish

    vattenmelon · Citrullus lanatus

  • Swiss High German

    Wassermelone

  • szy

    ciyak

  • Tajik

    тарбуз

  • Tamil

    தர்ப்பூசணி

  • Tatar

    карбыз

  • Tatar (Cyrillic)

    карбыз

  • Telugu

    పుచ్చ · సిట్రుల్లస్ వల్గారిస్

  • Thai

    แตงโม

  • Tibetan

    ཆུ་ཀུབ།

  • Tongan

    meleni · Citrullus melo · Citrullus lanatus · Citrullus vulgaris

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    西瓜

  • Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)

    دلّاع

  • Tunisian Arabic (Latin)

    dellè3

  • Tuvinian

    дарбыс

  • Udmurt

    арбуз · Citrullus lanatus

  • Ukrainian

    кавун

  • Upper Sorbian

    Wódna melona · Citrullus lanatus · Kawon · Citrullus vulgaris

  • Urdu

    تربوز

  • Vietnamese

    dưa hấu · Citrullus lanatus · tây qua

  • Waray

    pakwan

  • Welsh

    Melon dŵr

  • Western Mari

    арбуз · Citrullus lanatus

  • Wolof

    xaal

  • Wu Chinese

    西瓜

  • Yiddish

    ארבוז · רויטע מעלאנע · מאלאנע · מעלאנע

  • Zaza

    Hendi

  • Zhuang

    gvehoengz

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q38645

Photos

Photo: Don miraj · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons