Eating these lumpy, misshapen, and sometimes small gourds is often more work than it’s worth due to the tough exteriors with minimal edible flesh and seeds, unlike a meaty pumpkin. Also ...

Drying or curing will take four weeks or more for small gourds and three months or more for larger ones. You’ll know the gourds are sufficiently dried when the skin is hard and the seeds rattle ...

Popular in stir-few, curries, and pickles, its small, cucumber-like fruits add ... allowing for continued production. Growing ...

A research conducted by the Peradeniya University has revealed the potentiality of bitter-gourd seeds in destroying cancer cells.Prof. Jayantha Rajapaksa of the Veterinary Faculty engaged in the ...