Watermelons Citrullus lanatus (Thumb.) Mansf. were reported to be growing in Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, Mediterranean Coasts, Europe and America in the late 1500s. Growth spread to Japan from South China and Southeast Asia. Fruits were basic food for people and animals in these countries, however the fruits bore little resemblance to current cultivars in size, shape, color and internal ...

The word “pumpkin” is derived from the Latin word pepo, which is a botanical term for fruit with a hard rind and fleshy interior. The commonly used scientific name for pumpkins is Cucurbita pepo. But some other cucurbits, such as Cucurbita moschata (e.g., ‘Dickenson’ and ‘Libby Select’, known as processing pumpkin) (Figure 1, B) and Cucurbita maxima, which are winter squash, are also known as p...

Accidental ingestion of infective stages helminths through consumption contaminated vegetables and fruits causes a wide range food-borne diseases in humans. This systematic review meta-analysis evaluated the global incidence helminthic contamination vegetables, cucurbits fruits. Several databases (Science Direct, Web Science, PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar) were searched for literature publishe...