Meeting the needs of the population in food products, ensuring food security are topical issues today. To do this, it is necessary to create science-based innovative technologies for growing, storing, processing various food products throughout the year.

    The nutritional value of melon is incredibly high, it is an excellent tannic product that has a powerful effect on human health.

    Uzbek melon is known all over the world for its sweetness, unique taste, aroma, long shelf life.

    Currently, the demand for melon is growing every day. Already melon, being a product of gourds, has a number of beneficial properties for human health.

    Fully ripened sweet, palatable, fragrant, juicy fruits of barberry are used for food. It is consumed both fresh and dried - Coca-Cola, sometimes with spices and vinegar (usually not fully ripe fruit). Jam, jams, compotes are cooked from its fruits, as well as aphids, melon honey and other products are prepared. Melon is an important, nutritious and healing food.

    In folk medicine, melon has long been widely used to treat various diseases. It was also widely used by Ibn Sina in his time. The pulp of the fruit is recommended for the treatment of diseases of toads, pulmonary tuberculosis, gout. Melon is used for constipation and hemorrhoids as an expectorant, cough and anti-inflammatory, diuretic, emetic. The soft pulp of the melon and its juice quench thirst well and calm the nerves.

    Currently, more than 160 varieties of melon are distributed in Uzbekistan, differing from each other in early maturity, yield, resistance to diseases and other adverse conditions, taste, lightness, transportability, suitability for processing and drying. The yield of melons and gourds is up to 10.4-14.9%.

    The melon fruit is very juicy (retains up to 92% water), contains 4.5-20% sugars (sucrose, glucose, fructose and other sugars), organic (malic, citric) acids, vitamins C, B1, B2, PP, P and E, carotene, pantatin and folic acids, pectin, there are aromatic and other substances. The edible soft part of the melon contains a large amount of salts of iron, potassium and other elements. Seeds are also rich in biologically active substances (more than 25% of fats, sugars, proteins and other compounds).

    The fact that the amount of water in a melon has the ability to fully satisfy the water balance required by the human body has also been proven in science and in everyday life. That is why melon can be considered a dietary product.

    A decoction of melon seeds, the soft part of the fruit and fruit juice are recommended for use in diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract as a diuretic, liver, biliary tract as a choleretic agent. The benefits of melon in these diseases are great.

    Melon stores a lot of easily digestible sugars. Therefore, it should not be used by patients who are prone to overweight (obesity) and suffering from diabetes mellitus (diabetes mellitus). Otherwise, the patient's condition worsens. People with food allergies should also refrain from eating melon.

    In addition, the high content of carotenoids contained in melon helps prevent and stop the development of cancer. The adenosine anticoagulant contained in melon activates the breakdown of blood, preventing heart and vascular diseases, that is, stroke. Potassium also improves the functioning of the heart and vascular system, stopping the occurrence of hypertension.

 

Vohid Lapasov,

Student of Samarkand State University,

The owner of the state scholarship of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.