{"id":14959,"date":"2023-08-04T04:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T08:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/?p=14959"},"modified":"2023-08-04T04:45:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T08:45:20","slug":"your-watermelon-might-be-trying-to-kill-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/blogs\/mornings\/2023\/08\/your-watermelon-might-be-trying-to-kill-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Watermelon&#8230;might Be Trying To KILL YOU!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is true&#8230;this is how it works&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been so hot this summer, that some watermelons are turning into deadly ticking timebombs.\u00a0 Sort of.<\/p>\n<p>The heat can cause the fruit inside to ferment, and if that happens, you&#8217;ll see a frothy foam bubbling out of the watermelon.\u00a0 It&#8217;s complicated, but basically it&#8217;s a combination of bacteria, the fruit&#8217;s natural sugars, and above-average temperatures . . . both where they grow, and where they&#8217;re being stored.<\/p>\n<p>It may sound like a fermenting watermelon could be a FUN thing . . . like it&#8217;s becoming alcoholic . . . but it&#8217;s actually dangerous, and should never be eaten.<\/p>\n<p>A fermenting watermelon is the ideal environment for toxic pathogens . . . including botulism, E. coli and Salmonella.\u00a0 And if enough gas is produced in the process, it can cause the watermelon to EXPLODE.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;you see this&#8230;get it out!<\/p>\n<p>~Tymo<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jrYNopAc_3E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen title=\"Foaming Melons\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is true&#8230;this is how it works&#8230; It&#8217;s been so hot this summer, that some watermelons are turning into deadly ticking timebombs.\u00a0 Sort of. The heat can cause the fruit inside to ferment, and if that happens, you&#8217;ll see a frothy foam bubbling out of the watermelon.\u00a0 It&#8217;s complicated, but basically it&#8217;s a combination of","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mornings"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 02:31:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/windsor.coolradio.ca\/blogs\/mornings\/2023\/08\/your-watermelon-might-be-trying-to-kill-you\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14961,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14959\/revisions\/14961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/ckuew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}