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Momordica charantia (commonly called bitter melon, cerassee, goya, bitter apple, bitter gourd, bitter squash, balsam-pear, karavila and many more names listed below) [1] is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit.
This wild melon is relatively small in size compared to cultivated bitter melon. Momordica charantia (bitter melon, Mandarin Chinese: kǔ guā 苦瓜) is native to Africa but has been used in Chinese folk medicine for centuries as a 'bitter, cold' herb, and has recently been brought into mainstream Chinese medicine as well as natural medical ...
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.
Chinese date táo tàu: Cam sành: green orange Sugar-apple bình bát or mãng cầu: Custard apple Dracontomelon sấu: Durian sầu riêng: Gac gấc: Xôi gấc – made with sweet glutinous rice and the aril and seeds of the gấc fruit Baby Jackfruit, Spiny Bitter Gourd, Sweet Gourd, or Cochinchin Gourd Chrysophyllum cainito vú sữa ...
Groff mentioned that, during a visit to the American ministry of agriculture in 1917, the botanist Frederick Coville showed him a luo han guo fruit bought in a Chinese shop in Washington, DC. Seeds of the fruit, which had been bought in a Chinese shop in San Francisco, were entered into the botanic description of the species in 1941.
The smell is sharp, pungent, and spicy; the taste is salty, somewhat bitter and sweet. [ citation needed ] The product made with white soybeans is called mianchi . Douchi , "Chinese salted black beans", and "black soybeans" are not the same as the black turtle bean , a variety of common bean that is commonly used in the cuisines of Central ...
bitter wine: From (simplified) 干 gān 'dry'. 苷 glycoside: 甘 gān 'sweet' gān 'licorice: From 甘 gān 'sweet'. Formerly known as 甙 dài, composed of 弋 from 代 dài 'substitute' and 甘 gān 'sweet'. 胍 guanidine: 瓜 guā 'melon' guā: gū: 'large abdomen' or 'stoutness' European pronunciation 胲 hydroxylamine: 亥 hài '9-11 pm' hǎi
The oriental melon (Cucumis melo Makuwa Group) is a group of Cucumis melo cultivars that are produced in East Asia. [1] [2] Phylogenetic studies tracing the genetic lineage of the plant suggest that it may have originated in eastern India, having then spread to China over the Silk Road, from which it was introduced to Korea and Japan.