as a green vegetable. Above: The seeds and spongy pith of these Chinese bitter melons are removed easily with a spoon. As a food, bitter melon is used widely and valued precisely for its ...

While some eagerly tuck into their meal, others push the greens around their plate ... and non-glucosinolate-producing vegetables (like bitter melon, spinach, and endive). 4 They found that, compared ...

In Chinese cuisine, "gwa" - usually translated as squash or melon - covers a wide variety of vegetables and fruits such as watermelon, fuzzy melon, winter melon, Chinese okra and bitter squash.