Find out, then get recipe ideas to put these mildly-sweet melons to delicious use. From left: Andy Lyons, Brie Goldman Americans are sweet on melons. The average adult eats about 28 ½ pounds per year, according to USDA estimates. Watermelon is by far the bestseller, accounting for most of the melons grown and consumed in the U.S. But cantaloupe and honeydew clock in at second and third,...