You can eat fire ginseng fruit seeds. You don’t need to spit out the seeds to eat fire ginseng fruit.
The seeds of fire ginseng fruit contain a large amount of dietary fiber and can be eaten together with the pulp. But its fruit seeds are relatively large, and many people don’t like it very much, so many people spit out the fruit seeds. The taste of fire ginseng fruit is not too sweet, but it is very popular because of its rich nutrition. Fire ginseng fruit seeds can be eaten, but those who don’t like to eat seeds can spit them out.
The seeds of fire ginseng are covered in the gelatin-like substance of the pulp like cucumbers. It is difficult to remove them separately when eating. Although the taste is not great when eaten directly, you can dip it in some sour plum powder to eat. It also tastes very special and delicious. Those who don’t want to waste the seeds can also squeeze the juice and drink it.
Cucumber
Cucumber (scientific name: Cucumis metuliferus E. Mey. ex Naudin) is an annual herbaceous climbing plant of the Cucurbitaceae family. The stems are creeping, green, 5-ridged, densely covered with thorns, and the stem nodes have tendrils. The leaves are oval and alternate, and the flowers are dioecious and monoecious, with yellow corollas. The fruit is unique, like a sea cucumber, with a hard, bumpy skin and sharp spines. The peel is bright green during the growth period and turns golden yellow when fully mature. The flesh is delicate and juicy with a sweet taste. The seeds are flat, oblong, with light yellow seed coat. The weight of one thousand seeds is 10 grams. A single melon produces 127-241 seeds.
Native to the Kalahari Desert in Africa. It has been introduced and cultivated in New Zealand, the United States, Australia, Germany and China. Cape melon is a typical short-day crop with strong disease resistance, heat tolerance and cold tolerance, and is suitable for growing in hot and dry climate conditions. The flesh of the thorn melon is delicate and multi-seeded. It is gelatinous like a cucumber and has a sweet taste, which tastes like a mixture of banana, lemon and cucumber.