Weight Loss, Superfood: Watermelon For Flatter Belly, Truth Or Myth? What An Expert Has To Say

After quinoa and kale, there's a new superfood that's touted to effectively help with weight loss and it's one that's quite right for the summer season as well. Watermelon, with its green skin and red flesh, is perfect for making refreshing drinks like smoothies and juices. It's also known for its rich vitamin content, but it has one of the lowest calories in fruits.

Watermelon has vitamin C, A, B6 and B1 and it's also rich in potassium, biotin and magnesium. It has lycopene, which helps keep the heart healthy, and beta-carotene, which aids in good skin and improved immune systems. Parent Herald has previously outlined the surprising ways that makes watermelon a superfood.

Watermelon For Weight Loss, Flatter Belly  

Some weight loss enthusiasts say that even if you gorge on watermelon, you won't get fat. That's because a serving of watermelon only contains 40 calories and the fruit is actually made of 92 percent water, per Daily Mail. Thus, like water, watermelon helps the body rid the toxins, which builds into fat deposits and affects metabolism.

Live Strong cites that as a low energy dense food, watermelon is perfect for those keen on loosing belly fat, such as parents who have beer bellies or extra weight from pregnancy. You can eat this in large amounts and feel satiated, but you won't be packing on the calories compared to other high energy fruits.

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Watermelon Weight Loss Benefits, According To The Experts

There's a simple watermelon detox that lets a person eat only one large watermelon a day for three days in a week, while eating regularly for the rest of the week. The detox is supposed to kick start a weight loss process.

However, it's diets like this that won't work if a person is trying to lose weight because it's restrictive and the process is just a fad, according to nutritionist Jessica Marcus, per Health Line. While Marcus acknowledges that watermelon is a good fruit, it's not the perfect weight loss solution. It's more of a "hydrating and refreshing" fruit that can help a person feel full.