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 ...

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.

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 ...