Gourd is a vegetable, cucurbitaceae and cucurbitaceae. This kind of fruit can be eaten as a vegetable before it is ripe, but it is usually eaten by few people because it tastes bad. Fruit ripens from July to August every year.

Nutritional value of gourd

The taste of gourd is too weak to taste without careful tasting. Common eating methods include fried gourd, fried gourd with fungus, gourd cake, fried gourd with chopped pepper, fried gourd eggs and so on. Gourd is not a medicinal material, but it has good health care value and high nutritional value. Has diuretic, repercussive, thirst quenching, and body fluid promoting effects. It can also be used to treat symptoms such as upset, edema and gonorrhea.

The Origin and Cultivation of Gourd

Gourd originated in Africa. The common gourd producing areas in China are Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shaanxi and other provinces, among which the gourd produced in Hebei and Liaoning is very good. Gourd is suitable for planting in March of spring and June of autumn 10, and it is best to plant it in Pingchuan with good drainage and fertile soil, or on the hillock with good irrigation conditions.