Customers are sharing videos of exploding watermelons from Walmart

A video is going viral showing exploding fruit.

Emily Durbin, a Florida resident, posted about odd fruit this week on a Facebook group “Mommy Needs A Recipe!”

Durbin shared a photo of a sizeable watermelon perched on her kitchen counter with white foam oozing out of it. “We bought this watermelon YESTERDAY at Walmart. My husband left for work around 6 am & when I walked in the kitchen around 9 am, this is what I walked into. The white stuff was a foamy bubbly substance. The yellow juice was chunky & thick. The odor was absolutely FOUL. It reminded me of vomit,” she wrote in the post.

Is it common for watermelon to explode?

Have you ever had a watermelon split open, or even randomly explode? It’s a relatively rare occurrence, but it’s definitely up there as one of the more surreal food incidents you might experience – so why does it happen?

A watermelon that splits usually does so because of fermentation inside the fruit, or a bacterial infection. Some heirloom types of watermelon are far more prone to exploding because of a gene that the plant carries. Occasionally, watermelons will split as a result of being overwatered, or because of intense heat in their growing environment.