Gourds can be eaten. Fresh gourds with tender green skin and white flesh can be harvested when the fruit is immature and eaten as a vegetable. Ancient people eat gourds as fruits and vegetables, eat a variety of ways, can be burned soup, cooking, can also be pickled, dry sun. Gourd soup is fragrant and flavorful. Gourd and its leaves should be eaten when young, mature will lose food value.

The size and shape of gourd fruits vary, there are stick, ladybird, dolphin, pot, etc., the type of name depends on the shape of the fruit.

Cucurbits are cultivated all over China, and their shells are lignified and hollowed out when the fruits are ripe, so they can be used as containers, such as wine jugs, household utensils such as scoops, and children's toys, as well as ornamental items, etc., after certain treatments.