It takes 10-15 minutes to cook the water hyacinth fruit.

Eichhornia crassipes are generally not big in size. Most of the nutrients in the kernels of the cranberries are starch. As long as the starch is fully heated and cooked through, the cranberries will basically be cooked. This process usually only takes 10 to 15 minutes. After the watermelon is cooked, you can choose whether to eat it directly or make soup with other foods according to your personal eating habits.

Pingpo is an evergreen tree of the Sterculiaceae family, also known as "Eichhornia fruit", with oblong leaves; it blooms in early summer, without a corolla, with pink flowers in panicles; the fruit is divided into four or five ramoses, with the outside Dark red, interior painted black. The seeds are edible and taste like chestnuts when cooked. It is native to China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia and other places. It is often planted as a garden tree in the south of Guangdong, China. The wood is light and tough and can be used to make utensils.