Q&A for How to Cut a Watermelon

The seeds are completely edible; the rumors of watermelons growing in your stomach are just lies told to children.

Yes. But they taste much better roasted and salted.

Not really; just get a seedless watermelon if you don't want to spit out the seeds.

Watermelon is best cut freshly, so cut it as close to dinner time as possible.

It tastes bad and it's hard to digest, but no one is stopping you from eating it if that's what you want to do.

The outside of the rind touches the cutting board/surface, and so does the actual watermelon. You don't want your watermelon to be dirty with whatever is on the outside of the rind.

Yes, most grocery stores will sell seedless watermelons during the season in which watermelons are ripe.

No. You can eat the rind - the white and red part between the center and the skin of the watermelon.

No, watermelon rind is not poisonous.

Yes. Watermelons with seeds are more red and juicier than the seedless watermelons.

When storing a cut melon, wrap the cut side in plastic, and it should keep in the fridge for about 3 days. The plastic will prevent the watermelon from absorbing the flavors of other foods and will keep its flesh moist.

Although watermelons naturally have some white seeds which are fairly harmless if accidentally eaten, it is hard to see the black harmful seeds without cutting the watermelon open. Watermelon producers have processes to find out which watermelons don't naturally have seeds to be sold, but markets have to tell their customers which ones don't have them via signage.