Watermelon Viagra

This morning I was surprised to learn that jocks have been taking Viagra for its performance enhancing qualities. But not for the type of performance enhancement you might think they'd take it for. Instead, they are popping the blue pills to make their blood flow easier due to the relaxing of blood vessels and the resulting delivery of more oxygen to their hard working muscles.

I don't know how widespread the sports world Viagra popping is. Those pills aren't cheap.

Here in Texas, Texas A & M is doing its part for performance enhancement. They've discovered one of the phyto-nutrients in watermelon, that being citrulline, has the ability to relax blood vessels, like Viagra does, with the same result.

Trouble is most of the citrulline is located in the part of the watermelon most people don't eat, that being the rind. I've always liked watermelon rind. And I've never had the need to use Viagra. Now, I guess I know why.

Texas A & M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center, down in College Station, Texas, near the Presidential Library of the first President Bush, is busy working on trying to breed a watermelon where the performance enhancing citrulline is in the fruit part as well as in the rind.

If Texas A & M is successful, I'm guessing those are going to be some expensive watermelons. They will need to be banned from sports, just like steroids.

The video below demonstrates the power of too much watermelon rind consumption.