As long as there is no odor or deterioration, it can be eaten. Winter melon soup is a home-cooked soup with winter melon as the main ingredient. The main raw materials are wax gourd, pepper and sesame oil, which are rich in nutritional value, fresh in taste and cheap in price. Winter melon soup is very popular in the south and north of China. It is simple and easy to make. This is a kind of soup that people eat every day. Can be eaten with rice, steamed bread, etc.

Wax gourd (scientific name: wax gourd. ) Cogn.), an annual creeping or trellis herb of Cucurbitaceae, with yellow-brown bristles and villous stems, ribbed petioles with coarse bristles, villous petioles, monoecious flowers, long cylindrical or nearly spherical fruits, large, bristles and hoarfrost, and oval seeds.