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What's the difference between mangy grapes and bitter melon Can you eat the skin of mangy grapes? How? Bitter
Managed grapes are small, the skin can be eaten, not accustomed to the bitter taste can be peeled off.

Lazy grapes: more common in the southern part of the country, the Wenzhou area known as the "red lady", as the name suggests: the appearance of its love, the flavor of its sweet. Lai grapes, also known as golden bell, cucurbitaceae, bitter melon genus, annual climbing herb bitter melon fruit. Leaves alternate, palmately 5-7 parted. Flowers small, unisexual, monoecious, yellow. Length not more than 10 cm. Fruit fusiform, with verrucose projections, orange-yellow and bitter at maturity, flesh bright red and sweet. Young fruits are greenish-white, white at maturity, later ripe fruits are orange-red, young or old fruits can be eaten.

Bitter melon (scientific name: Momordica charantia L.), common name: mange grape, cool melon, bitter melon annual climbing tender herb. Stem and branches are pilose. Tendrils not divergent, petiole 4-6 cm long; leaves ovate-reniform or suborbicular, 4-12 cm long, 4-12 cm wide, 5-7-parted, lobes ovate-oblong, coarsely toothed or with irregular lobules. Male flowers: solitary in leaf axils; pedicel with 1 green bract in middle or lower part, reniform or orbicular, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 0.5-1.5 cm wide; calyx lobes ovate-lanceolate, 4-6 mm long; corolla yellow, lobes obovate, 1.5-2 cm long; stamens 3, free, anther locules 2- folded. Female flower: solitary; pedicel base often with 1 bract; ovary densely verrucose. Fruit fusiform or terete, verrucose, 10-20 cm long, orange-yellow when mature, apically 3-valved. Seeds numerous, with red aril, each end with 3 small teeth, both surfaces incised. Flowering and fruiting period May-October. Bitter melon fruit taste sweet and bitter, mainly as a vegetable, can also be candied; mature pulp and aril can also be eaten; roots, vines and fruits are used in medicine, have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification.