{"id":704,"date":"2019-07-30T09:29:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/?p=704"},"modified":"2019-07-30T09:29:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T09:29:50","slug":"what-are-japanese-melons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/what-are-japanese-melons\/uncategorized\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Japanese Melons?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>People in Japan are buying melons that cost as much as a new car.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This specific variety of melon is called the Yubari King and is actually a cross between two types of cantaloupe.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Kobe beef or champagne, the fruit can only be produced in a certain region in Yubari, hence the name. A pair of the watermelon recently sold at auction for around \u00a53 million (\u00a321,500). That&#8217;s around \u00a310,000 per Melon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the high price is the exclusivity\/scarcity as they&#8217;re hard to grow. and because they apparently possess a very sweet flavour. Normally they cost between \u00a340 and \u00a380, which is still a lot of money for a melon.\u00a0 When the highest bidder was asked about the purchase, he said \u00a0\u201cI wanted to return a favour to the farmers of Yubari, who help us every year.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe-outer'>\n<div class='besclwp-iframe YouTube'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Japanese Melons Are So Expensive | So Expensive\" width=\"1320\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2YntFbFRnvs?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Japan are buying melons that cost as much as a new car. This specific variety of melon is called the Yubari King and is actually a cross between two types of cantaloupe. Just like Kobe beef or champagne, the fruit can only be produced in a certain region in Yubari, hence the name&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,96,95,53,98,99],"class_list":["post-704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education","tag-fact","tag-facts","tag-food","tag-fruit","tag-melon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":706,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704\/revisions\/706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}