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Benincasa hispida, the wax gourd, [4] [5] also called ash gourd, [6] white gourd, winter gourd, winter melon, tallow gourd, ash pumpkin, [6] Chinese preserving melon, [6] is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable when mature. It is native to South and Southeast Asia.
The Canary melon (Cucumis melo (Inodorus group) [1]) or winter melon [2] (not to be confused with the wax gourd, also called winter melon) is a large, bright-yellow elongated melon with a pale green to white inner flesh. This melon has a distinctively sweet flavor that is slightly tangier than a honeydew melon.
The gourd also makes frequent appearances in Chinese mythology. The Chinese god of longevity Shouxing is often depicted carrying a staff with a gourd attached to its end. Li Tieguai, one of the Eight Immortals is also often depicted with a bottle gourd that contains a special medicine that he uses to aid the sick, poor, or needy. These ...
I have uploaded images of their seeds: mao_qua.jpg and winter melon seed.jpg. Please take a look. For unknown reasons, people in Souhtern China prefer to consume mao_qua when they are approximately 15 cm long but winter melons are normaly consumed when they are about 80 cm long and about 25 cm in diameter.
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The Cucurbitaceae (/ k j uː ˌ k ɜːr b ɪ ˈ t eɪ s iː ˌ iː /), [2] also called cucurbits or the gourd family, are a plant family consisting of about 965 species [3] in 101 genera. [4] Those of most agricultural, commercial or nutritional value to humans include: [ citation needed ]
Wax paper is also a non-stick coated paper, but rather than silicone, it is coated in (spoiler alert!) wax. It's paraffin wax, to be more specific, which makes it moisture-proof and grease-proof, too.
Egusi seeds are used in making egusi soup; the soup is thickened with the seeds. Melothria sphaerocarpa, which egusi seeds are from, grows throughout central to western Africa and is used by different ethnic groups in these regions to prepare the soup, and the origins of the soup are deeply rooted in the Yoruba culinary [6] Egusi soup is a very popular soup in West Africa, with considerable ...