What happens if you eat a watermelon rind?

Question

so my friend took a huge bite of one, and my moms saying your not supposed to - whats going to happen

Answer 1

You can make delicious "Pickled Watermelon Rind"!  Here is the recipe.  2 pounds watermelon rind, 1 TB pickling lime,.  4 cups white distilled vinegar, 1 cup water, 5 cups sugar, 1 TB whole allspice, 1 TB whole cloves, 6 small pieces cinnamon stick.  Prepare and remove the green and pink from the watermelon rind.  ut in small pieces and soak for three hours in lime water made from the lime mixed with one quart of water.  Drain and rinse the rind.  Cover with fresh cold water and boil for one hour, or until tender.  Drain the watermelon.  Cover with a weak vinegar solution (one cup in two cups of water) and allow to stand overnight.  Discard the liquid the next morning and make a syrup of the three cups of vinegar, one cup water, sugar and spices.  Heat the syrup to the simmering point.  Remove from heat, cover and steep for one hour to extract the flavor from the spices.  Add the drained watermelon to syrup and cook gently for two hours or until the syrup is fairly thick.  Pack the fruit and syrup in pint-standard canning jars.  Adjust the jar lids and bands.  Process for 15 minutes in a boiling water bath.

My grandmother would make pickled watermelon rind, and can it to preserve it, like the recipe above.  Then we could eat it all winter long!  I love it!

Answer 2

your friend will benefit for the cancer fighting portion of the green

better to juice them through a juicer - like a Juiceman Junior

the green has the 'free radical scavengers' that sock it to cancer causing agents and gets them out of the body

now a 4" slice of a watermelon will fill a 40 oz glass jar -

chill that down - and when you come in from outside - it's MORE

refreshing than water

all the best

Answer 3

probably just a stomach ache.

Answer 4

You most likely will have a mild case of the squirts, if you know what I mean.

Answer 5

simple answer, you get full faster!!!!   Nothing should happen to you, just chew it up, it is a little hard and bitter!!!

Answer 6

Nothing really. Honestly the watermelon rind is edible, you can pickled them up and eat them after wards. Technically, the whole watermelon is edible but some people don't like the though of eating the watermelon rind as it is hard. The watermelon seed is also edible, lol don't worry if you swallow one by accident, nothing will grow in your stomach, you'll just end up pooping it out.

Answer 7

It has a similar effect to the drug tadalifil.

Other than that it gives you indigestion.