Eating methods of egg fruit include eating it directly, making tea and making it into egg juice.

1, egg fruit can be eaten directly

Use a knife to cut the egg fruit, scrape off the meat and seeds, into the sugar or honey mix, and then eat directly, you can bite the seeds of the egg fruit, the taste is very crispy.

2, egg fruit can be bubble tea

Egg fruit into two, into the cup, and then into the rock sugar, with boiling water for about 6 minutes, you can drink.

3, the production of egg juice

Take an egg fruit, cut open the middle of the digging juice (including seeds), into the cup, add 200ml of water, add the right amount of white syrup to adjust the sweetness, stirring can be a cup of color, aroma, taste, nutritional juice in summer with ice water, winter with warm water. Add a dozen drops of milk, the flavor is more outstanding.

Morphological characteristics of egg fruit:

Herbaceous vine, about 6 meters long; stem with fine stripes, glabrous. Leaves papery, 6-13 cm long, 8-13 cm wide, base cuneate or cordate, palmately 3-parted, middle lobe ovate, lateral lobes ovate-oblong, margins of lobes with inwardly curved glandular apices serrulate, 1-2 small cupular glands near base of lobes not curved, glabrous.

Cymes reduced to only 1 flower, opposite tendrils; flowers fragrant, ca. 4 cm in diameter; pedicels 4-4.5 cm long; bracts green, broadly ovate or rhombic, 1-1.2 cm long, margins irregularly serrulate; sepals 5, outside green, inside greenish white, 2.5-3 cm long.

Outside apically with 1 angular appendage; petals 5, as long as sepals; outer corona lobes in 4-5 series, outer 2 series of lobes filiform, ca. as long as petals, base pale green, middle purple, apically white, inner 3 series of lobes narrowly triangular, ca. 2 mm; inner corona non-fringed, apically entire or irregularly lacerate, ca. 1-1.2 mm high.

Disk membranous, ca. 4 mm high; androgynophore 1-1.2 cm long; stamens 5, filaments separate, united at the base, 5-6 mm long, flattened; anthers oblong, 5-6 mm long, yellowish-green; ovary obovoid, ca. 8 mm long, pubescent; styles 3, flattened-clavate, stigma reniform.