Every season brings alongside a spread of fruits to savour. Currently, it’s time to take pleasure in candy mangoes and melons to juicy litchis- every of which can uplift the temper immediately. Now, we now have a brand new fruit available in the market! Curious to know what it’s? Farmers, in Japan’s second-largest island, Hokkaido have produced a completely new fruit referred to as “lemon melon.” According to Tokyo-based media portal SoraNews 24, this new fruit is spherical in form and when eaten it’s juicy in texture. The fruit will reportedly be a bit of candy like melon, however may also have a slight sourness of lemon. If you’re feeling like giving it a attempt, effectively belief us, you are not alone.
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The report revealed that as of now lemon melon is being cultivated in restricted portions. Its cultivation is at present going down in Hokkaido’s Furano by 5 farmers. While it is available in the same form to a watermelon, lemon melon’s pores and skin does not characteristic the stripes. The fruit inside is white. As per the report, the Japanese horticulture firm that’s accountable for this fruit revealed that they’ve bred the fruit from a kind of melon, which was imported from abroad. Surprisingly, the corporate has been engaged on lemon melon during the last 5 years, throughout which they indulged in innumerable experiments revolving round cultivation strategies and harvest instances. So that is the primary 12 months that they’ve achieved success within the experiments and are capable of promote the product. 
The report added that one of many supermarkets in Japan was noticed promoting the lemon melons at 3,218 yen, which is greater than Rs 1800. Initially, the fruit is claimed to be crisp like pears however when it ripens over time, its texture will get a lot softer, just like Hokkaido-grown Yubari melons. Reportedly, the producers this 12 months are aiming to domesticate about 3,800 lemon melons, which shall be bought out within the supermarkets of Hokkaido’s metropolis Sapporo by the tip of August. The expectations are to make lemon melon a brand new addition to Japan’s luxurious fruit market.